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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “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.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: neurosis
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: life
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    Sylvia Plath
    “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: doubt, faith, god, prayer
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    Sylvia Plath
    “What did my fingers do before they held him?”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    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, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: couples, friendship
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Out of the ash
    I rise with my red hair
    and I eat men like air.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
    tags: eating-disorder, self-image
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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    Marya Hornbacher
    “We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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    Frances Mayes
    “There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
    Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?”
    ― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
    tags: food
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    Frances Mayes
    “Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”
    ― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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    Frances Mayes
    “Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.”
    ― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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    Frances Mayes
    “Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.”
    ― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
    tags: choice, identity
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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