Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.
“Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.”
— Sylvia Plath · Cannot
The World Motivation
Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.
“Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.”
— Sylvia Plath · Cannot
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“Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.”
“How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?”
“I am a victim of introspection.”
“I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.”
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;”
“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
“I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.”
“No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive.”
“There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.”
“If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.”
“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.”
“While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.”