There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
SYLVIA PLATHThe 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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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 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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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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