Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. The plot parallels Plath's experience interning at Mademoiselle magazine and subsequent mental breakdown and suicide attempt.
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
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“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
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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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“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
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“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
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“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”
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“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
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“Miracles occur,If you dare to call those spasmodicTricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again,The long wait for the angel,For that rare, random descent.”
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“Character is fate.”
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
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