What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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 write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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