There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
SYLVIA PLATHI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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