I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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 am what I feel and think and do.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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