bell jar quotes

Question 1

The one thing…

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…I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes and that era was coming to an end.

Question 2

I saw my life…

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…branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.

Question 3

Blackness, like ink..

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…spread over the dark cloth - enveloping darkness - buildings blackened as if for a funeral - a white flake began its slow descent - dark heart of New York

Question 4

I saw the…

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…years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles

Question 5

I was only…

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…purely happy until I was 9 years old.

Question 6

An enormous…

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…spider fat stomach and two little ugly spindly legs.

Question 7

I watched my mother…

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…grow smaller and smaller, then I watched her grow larger and larger.

Question 8

It was a queer…

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…sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenburgs. - I couldn’t help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves - I thought it must be the worst thing in the world.

Question 9

I wasn’t…

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…steering anything. Not even myself. - I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullaballoo.

Question 10

The silence…

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…depressed me. It was my own silence.

Question 11

I felt dull…

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…and flat and full of shattered visions.

Question 12

Why I couldn’t…

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…sleep and why I couldn’t eat and why everything people did seemed so silly.

Question 13

I guess…

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…one of my troubles was Doreen - blue eyes that stood out like transparent, agate marbles - bright white hair - dress gowns the colour of sin.

Question 14

Dump her…

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…on the carpet and shut and lock my door.

Question 15

It was Betsy…

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…I resembled at heart.

Question 16

If only I…

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…had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face.

Question 17

Slutx3…

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…the word hissed by my ear.

Question 18

Dodo Conway…

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…was a Catholic - raised her six children - on the verge of a seventh

Question 19

My name’s…

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…Elly Higginbottom. After that I felt safer.

Question 20

I felt myself…

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…shrinking to a small black dot - I felt like a hole in the ground.

Question 21

I was almost…

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…fainting and dying to get back to college and tell everybody.

Question 22

(Constantin)I couldn’t…

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…stand the idea of women having to have a single life and men being able to have a double life.

Question 23

(Marco)My diamond…

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…I have earned my diamond with this blood. Give it to me.

Question 24

Simply hanging…

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…around waiting to get married to some career man

Question 25

Almost everybody...

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...I met in NY was trying to reduce.

Question 26

Buddy so...

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...athletic and so handsome and so intelligent.

Question 27

I hated...

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...the idea of serving men in any way.

Question 28

It would mean...

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...getting up at seven and cooking him eggs and bacon and toast and coffee... then falling into bed, exhausted.

Question 29

Children...

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...made me sick.

Question 30

I'd pick...

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...the richest most expensive dishes.

Question 31

I hope you...

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...enjoy that, it costs 41 cents a pound.

Question 32

Doctor Gordon...

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...cost 25 dollars an hour.