Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
SYLVIA PLATHShe stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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 want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of 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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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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