I am not cruel, only truthful.
SYLVIA PLATHI find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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