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World Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his…
- Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
- 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…
- 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…
- A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I…
- I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and…
- Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated…
- 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…
- As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone…
- Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest…
- Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
- To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
- I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his…
- 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…
- I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau…
- I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society…
- 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 thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.
- What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up…
- Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I…
- ..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my…
- When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or…
- I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And…
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- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
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