There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever ...
SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm ...
SYLVIA PLATH People live for eating,but
I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu...
VIV ALBERTINE There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever ...
SYLVIA PLATH You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee ...
AVIJEET DAS My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only th...
SYLVIA PLATH Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive b...
SYLVIA PLATH The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...
AL ÁLVAREZ Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have ...
JONI MITCHELL We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
AVIJEET DAS And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia ...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help
MARK TWAIN Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...
SYLVIA PLATH If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.
SYLVIA PLATH Demand your respect. Know what you want out of a man so he can manifest and become it... But that wo...
NERISSA IRVING There is no problem on earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
JASPER FFORDE I don't know how many good shots they put up. I know they missed a lot of shots, but I don't know ho...
BUELL JR I don't know how many good shots they put up. I know they missed a lot of shots, but I don't know ho...
BUELL GONZALES JR Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
JANE AUSTEN I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor o...
IGGY POP You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
SYLVIA PLATH Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 ...
ANNE STEVENSON Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, ...
ARLAINA TIBENSKY I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.
MICHELLE YEOH There were quite a few things she wasn't aware of.
BEVERLY BOSH There were a lot of kids . . . I cried quite a few times, things went so well.
KATHY LUTZ I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. Sh...
ANNE CARSON Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted.
BHAGAVID-GITA ...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a sh...
SYLVIA PLATH Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as th...
SYLVIA PLATH I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
SYLVIA PLATH Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said....
ROALD DAHL When a person likes truly someone, then there is not a few but many things and thoughts are in commo...
ANUJ SOMANY I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
SUSAN GLASPELL A long, hot bath is a real treat. But from a 'green' point of view, that's probably what...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, h...
ROSE MACAULAY I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back o...
DANIEL WOODRELL I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for...
DREW BARRYMORE At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I mu...
VINCE LOMBARDI Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.
A.D. POSEY I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK people have managed to marry without arithmetic
GEOFFREY CHAUCER people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Many things catches your eyes, appreciate them. But few things catches your heart, pursue them.
VIJU CHAKAVARTHY People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must b...
UMBERTO ECO Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.
BRYAN CALLEN Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quit...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy...
TONY MCCOY A life without problems is a life less likely to be.
VANCE B.. CHAN If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get.
KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford a...
JIMMY CARTER I don't know that there is such a thing as an embarrassment. There are quite a few teams that can be...
BUCK MARTINEZ It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, He...
ELIZABETH WINDER It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symp...
STEPHEN FRY If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, a...
JEREMY GRANTHAM I hyperventilate quite a lot.
CARA DELEVINGNE no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ...
DALLY SALAD Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
ANONYMOUS Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for ...
SYLVIA PLATH There is plenty of good in there. But it's been quite watered down, and many things have been left t...
NADIM SHEHADI Quite a few of them were holding,
DICK VERMEIL There are quite a few vehicles in the ditch, quite a few reports of vehicles that are losing control...
JOE TAPLIN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu...
JOHN PIPER There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whisk...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There are quite a few people that work in that location, and we need better access for them.
MAGGIE RIOS The laws of nature are simply such that in a molecular cloud there are just a few big clumps and qui...
GUIDO DE MARCHI Dont know why am different from other people, but i surely know that i think of the long run, i dont...
OLASOT My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a l...
ANALEIGH TIPTON Marriage is like a hot bath, once you get used to it it's not so hot any more.
PHOTO There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursu...
MICHAEL NOLAN Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must se...
MICHAEL MICHALKO I'm sure we'll discuss quite a few things, to be honest with you.
ALAN TRAMMELL Stoans want to be lissent to. Them big brown stoans in the formers feal they want to stan up and tal...
RUSSELL HOBAN That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
SYLVIA PLATH The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
SYLVIA PLATH To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ...
SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m...
SYLVIA PLATH Durumun ne kadar umutsuzsa, seni o kadar uzağa saklamaya çalışırlar.
SYLVIA PLATH Kafamda akıl namına ne kalmışsa onu kullanarak bedenimi tuzağa düşürmem gerekiyordu, yoksa b...
SYLVIA PLATH Kendimi bu güneşte, bir melek kadar ince ve uçucu bir hale gelene dek bir bıçak gibi bilemek is...
SYLVIA PLATH Hasta insanları şımartmamak lazım, şımartılmak onlara kötü gelir, kendilerine gelmeleri iç...
SYLVIA PLATH There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
TED HUGHES We've got a few moving parts. I wish it wasn't quite this many.
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SYLVIA PLATH I woke to the sound of rain.
SYLVIA PLATH Is there no way out of the mind?
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SYLVIA PLATH Mad Girl's Love Song
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
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SYLVIA PLATH I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am t...
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SYLVIA PLATH What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness
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SYLVIA PLATH We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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SYLVIA PLATH I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
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"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
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SYLVIA PLATH I am too pure for you or anyone.
From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962
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SYLVIA PLATH Ennui
Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,
designing futures where nothing...
SYLVIA PLATH I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATH Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.
SYLVIA PLATH If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.
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I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and la...
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SYLVIA PLATH Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
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SYLVIA PLATH I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will
SYLVIA PLATH My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing ...
SYLVIA PLATH ...I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete tes...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly con...
SYLVIA PLATH Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
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SYLVIA PLATH So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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SYLVIA PLATH How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
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SYLVIA PLATH I think I may well be a Jew.
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SYLVIA PLATH Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s he...
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SYLVIA PLATH I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
SYLVIA PLATH But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
SYLVIA PLATH I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
SYLVIA PLATH That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite secu...
SYLVIA PLATH To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
SYLVIA PLATH When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photogr...
SYLVIA PLATH The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATH The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATH What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ...
SYLVIA PLATH So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ...
SYLVIA PLATH My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ...
SYLVIA PLATH I Am Vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the ...
SYLVIA PLATH The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
SYLVIA PLATH What did my arms do before they held you?
SYLVIA PLATH I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
SYLVIA PLATH Is anyone anywhere happy?
SYLVIA PLATH I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea...
SYLVIA PLATH I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...
SYLVIA PLATH What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.
SYLVIA PLATH You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...
SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ...
SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m...
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