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Quote by Sylvia Plath

“There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.”

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Work

This book presents the extensive and unedited journals of Sylvia Plath, offering a candid and intimate look into her thoughts, experiences, and creative process throughout her life. more

Author

Sylvia Plath

American poet, novelist, and playwright. Her works are known for their profound emotion and unique style, and she is considered one of the most important female writers of the 20th century. more

“I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.”

World Feels Kind May Long Found Differences Poverty Progress Impossible Changed Serious Concern Moved Wide Making A Difference Reaching Haiti Moved On

Author:Toni Collette

“Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.”

Enough Wise Limits Speed Quitting Smoking Odds Getting Old Being Wise Quit Smoking Speed Limits

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.”

Ifs Wells Masters Prove Mark Slave Occasions Insult Temporary Tyrants Outrageous Condescension

Book:White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

“In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.”

Form Strategy Everyday Combat Everyday Life Stance

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.”

Alive Conscious

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?”

Ends Kindness Our Lives Middle Dependent Neglect Beginnings And Ends

Author:Dalai Lama

“Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.”

Writing Littles Reality Holes

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.”

Sin Forgiven Undone