“I am an autodidact - that's why I use bigger words than I should. It's a classic sign.”
Guardian interview (2008)
The Black Coat (2013)
“I am an autodidact - that's why I use bigger words than I should. It's a classic sign.”
Guardian interview (2008)
“Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 59
“My life flies away like a dream:
Why should I stay behind?”
Source: Cat-O'nine Tails
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison.
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
1950 entry, quoted in Gayle Wurst, Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1999), p. 158
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
1990s, Farewell speech (1999)