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Janet Malcolm quote on time and history resonates with readers
Original: “Time heals all wounds, smooths, cleanses, obliterates; history keeps the wound open, picks at it, makes it raw and blee
Readers are sharing a passage from Janet Malcolm's 'The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes', in which she writes that time heals all wounds, while history keeps them raw and bleeding. The line, drawn from her study of the aftermath of Sylvia Plath's death and Ted Hughes's role in shaping her legacy, is being passed around in reading communities as a striking reflection on memory, biography and the past.
Why now: The quote is being circulated in book-loving communities as an aphorism that speaks to current debates about history and memory.
Janet MalcolmSylvia PlathTed Hughes
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Evidence
- “Time heals all wounds, smooths, cleanses, obliterates; history keeps the wound open, picks at it, makes it raw and bleeding” (Janet Malcolm, ‘The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’). # sundaySentence # sylviaPlath # tedHughes # bookstodon @ bookstodon # reading · johnrakestraw@mastodon.online · 4
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