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“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.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”
― So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
― So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.”
― My Movie Business: A Memoir
― My Movie Business: A Memoir
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
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― Meditations
― Meditations
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