Sylvia Plath Quotes

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

Sylvia Plath

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963

Topics

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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Jimmy Carter

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I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.

Andy Dunn

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If you want to eat well and be healthy, there are so many different options now, and you can make a big difference even if it's committing to just one thing.

Anna Getty

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It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.

Michael Cimino

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A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

Steven Pinker

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My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.

Jay Ellis

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The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

Dick Van Patten

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In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

Douglas Alexander

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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

Donald Miller

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It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It's still the same emotions.

Conor McGregor

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As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

Brian Sandoval

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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Arnold Bennett

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