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Tell Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.
- 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…
- I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
- 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…
- I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't,…
- 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…
- How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and…
- Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.
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- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden