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.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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