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Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money
The success of many works is found in the relation between the mediocrity of the authors' ideas and that of the ideas of the public
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear
The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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