I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATHOnly I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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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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