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.
SYLVIA PLATHOpinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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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 felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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