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We are all the products of stories we tell about ourselves, stories pieced together from what we know is true and often from stories we wish were true, and of course the ones we wish weren’t.
“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
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