Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"Don't let the wicked city get you down."
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Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I was supposed to be having the time of my life."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."
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"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."
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"There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road."
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"I am made, crudely, for success."
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"I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
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"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."
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"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."
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"There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings."
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"Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it."
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"There was a beautiful time."
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