Sylvia Plath
Related This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when ... ELEANOR PORTER STEPHENIE MEYER Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 ... ANNE STEVENSON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand... HEATHER O'NEILL CHRISTINA ENGELA REBECCA SOLNIT CECELIA AHERN Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE It was true—but it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie. RYAN GALLOWAY HOLLY BLACK WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ERIC MCCORMACK ARTHUR GOLDEN How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that... BROCK CLARKE WINONA RYDER A.A. MILNE WINNIE THE POOH GERARD WAY STEVE SCALISE I just saw Steve last winter when his son was pitching against my son. Everything was looking up for... MIKE SCIOSCIA RAINBOW ROWELL A.A. MILNE We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee ... AVIJEET DAS I really had no clue what was going on. As a transfer from another school [Oregon State], it was bas... ANTON CLARKSON The key to our game was that we were able to create space and our game flowed today and that made it... JENNY KING The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w... RUTH LIGGETT ELIZABETH WINDER THORNTON WILDER As bad as the weather was, it was the aftermath that was so staggering. It's kind of like crawling o... MARK SUDDUTH In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine... ALISON WEIR JENSEN ACKLES As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called '... PETER MORGAN CRYSTAL WOODS C.S. LEWIS ROSECRANS BALDWIN PAT BENATAR When people get married later, I think you learn to ignore some things. Things don't bother you as m... DOLLE HAVEN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I said, and maybe it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I made the statement before our season bega... MARTY SCHOTTENHEIMER Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE DOROTHY ALLISON I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as... DAVID GERGEN After the [Al] Gore endorsement, the media and the group began to think that the nomination was done... GLENN REHN As far as I was concerned, I saw (having a black roommate) as being something very natural. When Cas... DENNIS POWELL When you thought about getting married, was there a particular dress you had in mind? KATIE COURIC Without Sierra, Sylvia really had nobody else. So great was her need for social bonding that Sylvia ... ANNE ENGH I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I ... BILLY ECKSTINE There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because ther... PRITAM CHAKRABORTY Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not suppose... J.M. REDMANN ANDY WARHOL I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who... LISA LEE I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it... HANNAH MILLS It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. KONRAD ZUSE J.R. WARD CHRISTOPHER WALKEN It was tough, we just didn't play as well as I think we can. The kids were pretty upset about it, bu... DAN DIETZEN JOAN LUNDEN You are your true self, when you recognize your being a child, being an adult and a elderly person a... MAURICE SPEES As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI FRED COUPLES ELLEN ULLMAN KINGSLEY AMIS I didn't think I had a chance. I was about as naïve as you can possibly get. It was like I woke up ... JOE FONTAINE LIANE MORIARTY PHILIP PULLMAN DORA J. AROD I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I ... BILLY ECKSTINE CLIVE DAVIS It was an issue where I didn't feel respected, so I went in and said what I had to say. Then I calle... ADAM MELHUSE CRYSTAL WOODS She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and ... MAUREEN F. MCHUGH CASSANDRA CLARE I think it really hit close to home because (Johnson) was a mom with three young children, doing som... HEATHER CULIG AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta... DORIS NORTHAM I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion. ANNI-FRID LYNGSTAD I just reacted and unfortunately I had to leave. I didn't know if (Parker) was behind me or not. I j... BRENDAN WITT Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... ELIZABETH STROUT I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as profession... BILLY SHERWOOD HENRY FLYNT KEVIN HART W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM BEN KINGSLEY When I was a teenager I hated having Bloomberg as a last name and being seen simply as someone's... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG BILLIE JEAN KING BLYTHE DANNER In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I ... FRANCES O'CONNOR We had been paying for it actually all along. When we were a state agency it was a transfer from our... ANDY WESSELS RACHEL CUSK I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, be... CHARLES GUGGENHEIM It was a terrible thing, ... The bottom line is that I was involved with a young woman and it went s... GLENN LOURY You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.ALEXANDER CHEE I think numbers-wise we were satisfied. We went into it wanting to keep as many of those guys as we ... ART ROONEY
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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. 
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Goodwill is something you put away like preserves, for a rainy day, for winter, for lean times, and ... 
Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were mer... 
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrail... 
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o... 
I was too young that time to value her,
I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happene... 
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very he... 
Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in... 
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Hon... 
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I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody though... 
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I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married ... 
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I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I k... 
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When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows... 
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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. 
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I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of u... 
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew... 
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic... 
I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled. 
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.