Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
SYLVIA PLATHThere 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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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