And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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