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Sylvia Plath Quotes: One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
         

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.


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If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.



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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.



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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.



I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.



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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.



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