Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.

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"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers."

- Sylvia Plath

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"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you."

- Sylvia Plath

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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

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"Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person."

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