"So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough."

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Source : Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

Sylvia Plath

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations”
“He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her..”
“I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.”
“The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.”
“Tempus fugit (time flies).”
“You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.”
“I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.”
“If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.”

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