I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real?…

Sylvia Plath
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I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.289, Anchor
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