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- Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy…
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
- A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
- Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
- I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and…
- The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no…
- All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
- I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
- The depths of the sea are only water after all.
- All artists need a room of their own
- ...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition…
- We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably…
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
- We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how…
- Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains…
- Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the…
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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