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After Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
- You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
- The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
- After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
- It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another…
- The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative…
- Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you…
- I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English…
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the…
- I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
- I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,…
- When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath.…
- The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and…
- Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or…
- I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my…
- Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember…
- If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well…
- I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be…
- The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A…
- I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and…
- I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is…
- Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read…
- It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't…
- Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood