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Quotes from Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 — Sylvia Plath

1932–1963 United States

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Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen — physical or psychological — wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1976)

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