"At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?"

-- Sylvia Plath

#Girl Quotes #Baby Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.”
“Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.”
“If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.”
“I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.”
“Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno”
“People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change”
“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”
“Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain; be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.”

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