I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a … - Sylvia Plath

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Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

Sylvia Plath

I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

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