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Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 Quotes: ...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much.
         

...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much." (Gordon Lameyer)


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