Because human nature tried too hard to be something it
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Instead of focusing on its strengths, Del Taco tried too hard to innovate.
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Because you never want to look like you tried too hard on this holiday.
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Perhaps he tried too hard; the performance lost tension and became weighty, almost ponderous.
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Invited to the Nationals' spring training camp in 20153, Smoker tried too hard to impress.
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He said today's pitchers, with their turbo fastballs, tried too hard to strike hitters out.
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It sounds like nothing and everything, like he tried too hard or not at all.
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His absence was very notable from Dark Souls 2, which tried too hard to outdo the original.
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For us Brits, looking good is just as important as looking like you haven't tried too hard.
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Some of their letters tried too hard to be funny, and were caustic-sounding, masking awful hurt.
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McDERMON Like a lot of new parents, I tried too hard, too early, with my first kid.
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The NEA died because artists tried too hard to be "the other," apart from the society they chronicled.
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When he came back, Whitehead says he tried too hard to prove himself, to the detriment of the team.
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Hendriks said he had tried too hard to avoid Judge's hot zone, but now works only to his strengths.
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No one seems to have been harmed, and the birds don't seemed to have tried too hard to ruin the affair.
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All of these issues are a lot more important than whether Kamala Harris tried too hard to seem cool on the radio.
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And though the servers tried hard, sometimes they tried too hard, one night making it difficult to have a conversation between all their interruptions.
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We were trying to do our album, our real CD, and we tried our best and I think we tried too hard in some ways.
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She also tried too hard to be a mother to her adolescent son Carl, perhaps wrongly attempting to shield him from life after the turn.
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Maybe writers David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall tried too hard to rationalize the material, updating one of DC's weirder, quainter heroes into something modern.
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The opening duet showcased the pristine athleticism of Benjamin Griffiths and Jonathan Porretta, yet Mr. Porretta, flashing surprised and self-satisfied looks, tried too hard to seduce.
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All he wanted to do was make people laugh, but sometimes he tried too hard, and he hated himself for doing that in some of his movies.
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He never found his footing in the (admittedly few, poorly scheduled) Democratic debates, and, like many an underdog, tried too hard to exploit trivial wedge issues with Clinton and Sanders.
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The Stuff-&-Tuck: AfterOnce you stuff a part in, pull up and loosen the tuck a bit for a woke-up-like-this style that doesn't look like you tried too hard.
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The senator from New Jersey has long been a strong communicator for the Democratic Party's message, but in trying to give an outstanding speech, in the end he just tried too hard.
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"It is crazy how far she is and how she's not in the mix," Kim says, which is exactly Khloé's biggest fear and why she tried too hard on the Costa Rica trip.
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"Maybe I could have loved you, maybe I tried too hard… but I don't know what you want from me," sings Charlotte, frustrated that she's crushing on a dude who's a bit of a mystery.
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"He almost tried too hard at first, felt he had to do everything himself," said Ryan, 30, who had four goals for the Senators in the first round after scoring 13 in the regular season.
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So we were primed for a finale that tried too hard to wrap up the plot via convenience and contrivance, while mostly bypassing the character work that made the season's first five hours so good.
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" It's true that she was funny in her minute or so as Dixie Normous in "Austin Powers in Goldmember" and that she tried (too hard) to be, as a flight attendant in "View From the Top.
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If season three felt as if it tried too hard to invest the show with meaning, season four is totally comfortable with being an incoherent roller coaster, one stuffed full of events, where literally nothing of consequence happens.
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The Daily Telegraph's fashion director, Lisa Armstrong, pointed at unfair judgments about age and gender playing out in the trousers tussle, saying that female politicians were expected to be stylish yet were maligned if they tried too hard.
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When it comes to looking effortlessly stylish, there's no denying that French women have that certain je ne sais quoi, mastering the art of never looking like they've tried too hard … especially when it comes to their beauty routines.
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In that sense, white viewers (like myself) will find it easier to truly understand both sides of this conflict — and cringe with recognition at times they tried too hard to prove they, too, were cool with people of other races.
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Needing one strike to win the pennant in 2005, he tried too hard to make it perfect — he rushed his body to the plate, his arm lagged behind and the Cardinals' Albert Pujols punished a hanging slider for a homer.
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If eyeglasses are a quick code for "smart," the low bun, sometimes known as a chignon, has become the equivalent for "sophisticated" — but unlike, say, the French twist, it offers the added benefit of not making you look like you've tried too hard.
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However, when I went back and thought about the interview I bombed, I realized that whenever I didn't have a real answer to one of the hiring manager's questions, I tried too hard to tell a joke or steer the conversation toward something entirely unrelated.
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Things like wallpaper and carpeting that tried too hard to effect three-dimensionality, cheap or ersatz materials imitating good or genuine ones, wacky proportions, and the use of ornamentation to gaudy excess all offended the reformers, who preferred elegant, semi-abstract iterations of natural forms.
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Bands tried too hard to show the world that the five years of touring they'd experienced since they'd written their madcap debut had made them thoughtful, and in doing so abandoned the lightning they'd once caught in a bottle as the folly of adolescence.
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In 1936, Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" warned that those who tried too hard to be liked would fail: Theodore Roosevelt's naturally friendly greetings to everyone he passed, regardless of status, Carnegie noted, had made it impossible not to like him, but Henrietta G., now the "best liked" counselor at her office, had been isolated until she learned to stop bragging.
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After a week, Manning herself seemed worn down by the fury: its been over a week since ive let everyone who helped me out of prison down, so many of you have helped me thru tough times, i tried too hard to do too much, im sorry im a human being and not a symbol, i have hit rock bottom But the fiasco's implications go beyond Manning to the dissociative effects of hero worship, especially on social media; how they turn people into icons and symbols who are not permitted to be fully human, particularly when they're asked to carry the unbearable weight of an oppressed community's hopes and dreams.
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Science Court earned top television awards for Tom Snyder. Variety thought that the TV series tried too hard to make science entertaining, and that it would come across as too complicated for its target audience.
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I was traumatised. But you don’t know it at the time. I was trying to keep my shit together. To be honest Martin was playing crap and I knew musically I was losing my inspiration. But I’d tried too hard and come too far to let it all go, so Martin went instead.
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Sometime later, Diego was shot by Kirk Anderson on the day Diego was to marry Lily. Emily had several relationships that just didn't work out. She tried too hard to make it work, but in the end, she was left behind. Emily fell in love with Tom Hughes, who was married to Margo.
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Rolling Stone negatively called it the "emo-punk version of a Creed album" with the "dark, near-metal riffage, thrashy screeching, big-ass choruses and tenaciously serious poetry". Trae Cadenhead of The Phantom Tollbooth criticized the group as they "tried too hard to reinvent themselves" with there being "nothing independent, raw, or even remotely exciting to be found".
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In the documentary of Campese's career, Campese: Rugby's My Life, Campese confessed that he perhaps "tried too hard" in this Test, trying to compensate for his early mistake. Following Campese's first Test performance, Alec Evans, the assistant coach of Australia's 1984 Grand Slam side, went public suggesting that Campese should be dropped from the Australian side.
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Björler was at the time very inspired by guitarist Alf Svensson's ideas, and called them "over the top" and "extremely challenging". However, Björler went on to comment that the group "tried too hard to impress people with too many riffs and weird songwriting". Björler has criticised the production also, dubbing it "weird" and "very weak-sounding".
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Goodsell was known to be fast over the first mile or two and a good race was expected. He was trying to break the Champion by a fast pace but evidently tried too hard as he capsized after just a quarter of a mile. Although he got back into the boat and continued, the race was effectively over and the Champion just paddled home to win.
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Without a piece to play, he runs down to find his great-uncle Ebbitt, who gives him a piece to perform. Upon entering the contest, he finds, much to his horror, that Sushin is one of the three judges. He performs the piece quite well, but is given the Yellow Ray of Failed Ambition, meaning he tried too hard. He does not win a Sunstone.
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Patrese took the lead again with Alesi getting ahead of Mika Häkkinen's Lotus as well. Mansell tried to pass his teammate again but Patrese defended and once again kept the lead. Further back, Schumacher again tried too hard, hitting Stefano Modena in the Jordan, dropping out of the race with a broken front suspension. Patrese led Mansell, Brundle, Alesi, Häkkinen and Comas on aggregate.
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Emura said he "tried too hard" and that he thought his parents would be the happiest at seeing the brothers compete for the first time. Although Masaya won the battle against his brother, Emura's Marines defeated the Swallows 4–0 in the match. By the end of the 2013 season Emura had made 64 appearances for the Marines' first team, finishing with a batting average of .171, 6 runs and 7 RBIs.
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After being spotted by Geoff Cook, Durham's coach, Onions made his second XI debut for the club at the age of 18. He was offered a contract with the club and opted to become a professional cricketer rather than take a sports science choice at university, which was his other option. Onions started in the team as the fourth bowler. Looking back on his early career, he felt that he tried too hard early on.
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So So Gay felt that the video tried too hard "to over-sexualize Misha", but complimented the use of wind, rain, hair-flipping, and pyrotechnics. SoulCulture.com called it a fitting energetic visual packed with dancers, water and fire and clever effects. Promo News praised the director Justin Dickel's "high concept, visually stunning video" that "explores the fire and water themes in the lyric to produce some blinding visual effects that complement the uptemp message of the song".
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Destructoid also wrote positively of Trevor Belmont as a protagonist, but criticized the animation and added that the character designs were "flat". Dan Seitz at Uproxx left a negative review, writing that it tried too hard to find profundity in the story of the Castlevania series. He also cited issues with the pacing. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 100% of critics have given the second season a positive review with an average rating of 9.73/10, based on 12 reviews.
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The Americans had heard it and said, 'That's your radio song there', because they were having trouble with some of the more industrial elements [of the album]. It's almost like a covers band doing a U2 moment. Maybe we tried too hard." Bono said, "It's a song I feel we didn't quite nail on the record because there was another whole set of lyrics that were dumped and I wrote those quickly and off we went.
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I'd done my research and I knew, really, that there were two swimmers way ahead of the game. On the day I had a great heat, I just tried too hard in the final and that for me has been a lesson in life; you've got to apply just the right amount of pressure. If you over hurt yourself early on it really comes back on you. It's got to be 100% not a 110%, 110% is a 90% return.
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Released on May 28, 1993, the film was a critical and financial failure, grossing an estimated $35 million worldwide, against a budget of $42–48 million. Reviewers praised the innovative special effects, creative artistic direction, and the performances of its actors, but criticized the confusing narrative, lack of similarity to the games and inconsistent tone. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto felt the film tried too hard to replicate the games instead of being a good film. Though poorly received, the film's producer and co-director have claimed that Super Mario Bros.
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Hearn also voiced his opinion, stating Amir Khan should take the fight next. Brook's new trainer John Fewkes stated the performance was not his best as he 'tried too hard', but also raised the positive point that it should now entice other boxers to fight him. In the post-fight press conference, Brook accepted Khan's rehydration request that he would weigh no more than 157 pounds on fight night. A few days later, Hearn made it public that he had offered Khan an £8m flat fee, plus an upside of the revenue to fight Brook.
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The large amount of dialogue was criticised. PC Zone called the dialogue "generally interesting enough" to watch, but sometimes felt it could be too much. The length of the conversations were one reason Tom Houston lowered the grade for Noirs gameplay to a C, a complaint similarly raised by Guenther, who gave the gameplay a D. Reaction to the humour of the game was similarly mixed. Wildgoose felt the developers "tried too hard to make every character and every situation funny", resulting in jokes that fell flat and a level of humour "only sporadically maintained".
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The Blowneedle has a pair of satellites that can be pointed at enemies to shoot them down. New additions have been made to the core gameplay, such as a "slowdown" effect when the player is about to collide with an enemy. The game was developed by the same team behind Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, headed by director Tadashi Iguchi and producer Toshiko Tamura. Iguchi thought the original Legions tried too hard to be original and only appealed to a niche audience, deciding to make the game appeal towards more casual players with simple controls and a focus on frantic gameplay.
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" They also praised The Prophet's rapping parts stating he "has got some decent lyrics, but he's not featured on much of the track." Andy H of Angryape (UK) said the song "should do well, no doubt there – considering the current trend of electro-pop, with the club beat, rocky guitar sample and a confident sexiness in the vocals." RightCelebrity said "while some are liking the new mature, sexy Hilary Duff, some say she tried too hard, and original songs are always better. You always get the haters when you do a remake, so it is always risky.
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" Yueng compared the works of AFI with the works of The Cure, Joy Division, and Depeche Mode. Yueng gave the album four stars out of five. Megan Roos, writing for Consequence of Sound believe that the album had strong moments, but felt ultimately it tried too hard to appeal to everyone. Roos was primarily disappointed that the album did not touch so much on their hardcore punk and horror punk roots. Roos said that "it's not that the record isn’t good – it possesses potential chart-climbers and bittersweet moments that’ll make fans nostalgic for the group’s early punk days.
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Hunt tried too hard in several races making up for the performance deficit which led to race ending retirements, but the pure superiority of the Lotus caused his motivation to fall. Coppuck did an extensive redesign in the mid season, turning the M26 into a partial ground effect car dubbed the M26E. He enlarged the sidepods for the ground effect venturis, redesigned the suspension and added smaller wings front and rear, but there was no improvement in the cars' form and without a test driver to sort the cars' issues, the team's fortunes sunk even further.
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Social Distortion's musical style began as decidedly punk rock when the band formed in the late 1970s. They are thought to be one of the pioneering bands of the original Southern California punk rock movement out of Orange County, California, and their style closely associated with the Dickies, the Germs, and other bands from that place and time. In the mid-'80s there was a notable change in their style of music – taking more from country music and rock and roll. Mike Ness admits in the DVD commentary from Another State of Mind that he may have even tried too hard on the Prison Bound album.
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332 Norwich said that it displays "an antipathy to the right-angle that makes the Front Quad look positively Pythagorean". Another reviewer, though, said that whilst the building tried too hard to be "Oxford" with "quirky and derivative details", the design made "ingenious use of minimal space" and filled a "drab" corner with "something lively and intimate"; overall, the review concluded, the virtues of the building overcame its faults. A conference room, known as the Habakkuk Room after a former principal, was added in 1989. The Old Members' Building is connected by a bridge (Pevsner adding, "Of course it runs diagonally") to further college rooms above shops on Ship Street.
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The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN's Daemon Hatfield said that while the art style of the Xbox 360 version is great, the gameplay isn't engaging enough. Giant Bomb's Vinny Caravella said that while the art design of the same console version is "absolutely exquisite", the gameplay is average, and the random order of the items can get frustrating. Caravella also said that the framing story, of Sofi dealing with the loss of her Nana, tried too hard to be cute and heartwarming, at times being "a little too 'fuzzy mittens' for its own good".
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In the race Jones took the lead at the start with Jabouille second, Laffite third, Scheckter fourth and Regazzoni fifth. Jones held off intense pressure from Jabouille in the early stages of the race, until the latter tried too hard and spun off giving second to Laffite and third to Regazzoni. Regazzoni was soon past Laffite, and the two Williams cars dominated the rest of race, with Jones getting his first win of the season and Regazzoni completing the 1–2 leaving Laffite to take the final spot on the podium. Regazzoni then closed up on Laffite and went into second place on lap 13.
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According to Anime News Network's Mike Crandol, Kaoru is the least visually successful character redesign in the Reflection OVA. Citing the manga version's "distinctive girlish charm", Crandol said that the staff members tried too hard to make her look like Yukishiro Tomoe. Don Houston from DVD Talk noted the controversy between the fandom as they refrained from treating Reflection as canon due to how tragic the life of Kaoru and Kenshin's family became. About.com's Serdar Yegulalp felt the romance between Kaoru and Kenshin was entertaining to watch but at the same time criticized they often acted out of character, commenting on how Kaoru lets her husband leave the house in contrast to how in the original series, Kenshin left Tokyo while still not married with her.
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A year after Segundo Romances release, Warner Music released the El Concierto live album and video, a compilation of Miguel's performances at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, and his concert at the José Amalfitani Stadium in Buenos Aires during his Segundo Romance Tour. Nada Es Igual... is a departure from romance-themed albums. It is his first pop album to be recorded since Aries in 1993, which Achy Obejas of the Chicago Tribune described as "an eclectic pop mix that tried too hard to be edgy, nonetheless continued the reshaping of the Luis Miguel image." The album was announced by Miguel's record label Warner Music Mexico on the same day its lead single "Dame" was revealed on 12 July 1996.
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" Betts, who had been fired by Harper's after two years during which staffers said she tried too hard to emulate Wintour, reviewed it harshly in The New York Times Book Review: Priestly has some positive qualities. Andrea Sachs, the novel's main character, notes that she makes all the magazine's key editorial decisions by herselfWeisberger, 208. "Miranda was as far as I could tell, a truly fantastic editor. Not a single word of copy made it into the magazine without her explicit, hard-to-obtain approval ... Although the various fashion editors called in the clothes they wanted to shoot, Miranda alone selected the looks she wanted and which models she wanted wearing each one ... [T]hat made her, in my mind, the main reason for the magazine's stunning success each month.
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Subsequent singles "The Lazy Song" and "Marry You" were commercial successes as well, reaching the top 10 in over 10 countries; "The Lazy Song" topped the charts in the United Kingdom and Denmark. "Talking to the Moon" and "Count On Me" had a limited release, and "Liquor Store Blues" (featuring Damian Marley) and "Somewhere in Brooklyn" were promotional singles. The album received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who praised the album's similarity to the work of American artists Michael Jackson and Jason Mraz, although others felt that the album tried too hard to appeal to all groups. Doo-Wops & Hooligans received five nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Record of the Year and Song of the Year for the single "Grenade".
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In The Guardian on 20 April 1989, Hughes wrote the article "The Place Where Sylvia Plath Should Rest in Peace": > In the years soon after [Plath's] death, when scholars approached me, I > tried to take their apparently serious concern for the truth about Sylvia > Plath seriously. But I learned my lesson early... If I tried too hard to > tell them exactly how something happened, in the hope of correcting some > fantasy, I was quite likely to be accused of trying to suppress Free Speech. > In general, my refusal to have anything to do with the Plath Fantasia has > been regarded as an attempt to suppress Free Speech... The Fantasia about > Sylvia Plath is more needed than the facts. Where that leaves respect for > the truth of her life (and of mine), or for her memory, or for the literary > tradition, I do not know.
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