"I wanted to be where nobody I knew…" — Sylvia Plath

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• I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in… — Amory Lovins
• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is… — Sylvia Plath
• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think… — Sylvia Plath
• I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the… — Madonna Ciccone
• To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad… — Sylvia Plath
• because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be… — Sylvia Plath
• The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
• All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few… — Sylvia Plath
• It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left… — Sylvia Plath
• I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the… — Sylvia Plath
• There was a beautiful time... — Sylvia Plath
• I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round… — Sylvia Plath

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