I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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.
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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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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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