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Only Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is…
- I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the…
- Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and…
- So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in…
- I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.
- I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.
- I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless…
- There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in…
- The box is only temporary.
- Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me…
- The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.
- 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…
- This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
- I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
- I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other…
- From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much…
- And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.
- I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still
- I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin…
- I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
- There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in…
- The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people…
- 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…
- It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of…
- I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with…
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