After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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