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“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking them what they don’t want to do.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“She was determined to live as fully as possible—to write, to travel, to cook, to draw, to love as much and as often as she could. She was, in the words of a close friend, “operatic” in her desires, a “Renaissance woman” molded as much by Romantic sublimity as New England stoicism.5 She was as fluent in Nietzsche as she was in Emerson; as much in thrall to Yeats’s gongs and gyres as Frost’s silences and snow.”
― Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
― Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
“If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can’t afford to be with them. It’s not worth the price, even though, just like the Tiffany catalog, no one tells you what the price is. You set it yourself, and if you’re lucky it’s reasonable. You have a sense of when you’re about to go bankrupt. Your own sense of self-worth takes the wheel and says, Enough of this shit. Stop making excuses. No one’s that busy at work. No one’s allergic to whipped cream. There are too cell phones in Sweden. But most people don’t get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to pay for this one thing. This relationship is an impulse buy, and you’ll figure out if it’s worth it later.”
― How Did You Get This Number: Essays
― How Did You Get This Number: Essays
“Anything to evade the life not lived, the poem not written, the love not realized.”
― Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
― Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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