"Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb." — Anne Sexton
"Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb."
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Anne Sexton
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143 Quotes by Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton has 143 quotes on this site.
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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
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Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long…
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In a dream you are never eighty.
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Death's in the good-bye.
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Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
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You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my…
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I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and…
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
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emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the…
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Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
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I have been cut in two.
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how…
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing…
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole…
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -…
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our…
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
— George Santayana
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