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“That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.
The girls of 1929.”
― Bright Young Things
The girls of 1929.”
― Bright Young Things
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― The Complete Poems
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― The Complete Poems
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