One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
SYLVIA PLATHI am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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 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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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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