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Sylvia Plath has 524 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If…
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through…
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at…
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I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying…
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One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up…
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid…
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your…
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind…
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)…
— C.S. Lewis
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I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world…
— Sylvia Plath
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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
— Susan Orlean
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Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
— Andrei Codrescu
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She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is…
— David Lubar
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Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
— J.M.G. Le Clézio
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to…
— Gary Shteyngart
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