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.
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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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 want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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