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" If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years. "
Sylvia Plath
My Life
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" That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth. "
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" Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. "
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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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" I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched. "
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