“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
― The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
“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
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Factotum
― Factotum
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