“Life is so only-once, so single-chancish! It all depends on your arranging and synchronising it so that when opportunity knocks you’re right there waiting with your hand on the doorknob.”

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Sylvia Plath, from The Journals

This was my “senior quote” in the high school yearbook. She would have been 79 today. (I still think she’s right.)

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