My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHAnd 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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