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And by the way, everything in life is writable about.
The sentence comes from Plath's journals, and it does not stop there: everything in life can be written about, she goes on, if you have the 'outgoing guts' to do it and the imagination to improvise, and the worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt. Plath kept these notebooks from 1950 to 1962, long before The Bell Jar and the poems of Ariel made her famous. They were her workshop: she drafted scenes there, tried out ideas and argued with herself about her writing.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged JournalsLiterature
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa by the Japanese artist Hokusai is not a single painting but a woodblock print, published around 1831. Carved blocks were inked and pressed onto paper by hand, and an estimated 8,000 copies were made; just over a hundred early ones survive in museums around the world.
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