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"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."
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"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
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"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."
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