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Best Book Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written…
- They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
- I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,…
- When I am grown up I shall carry a notebookâa fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
- I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
- Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed…
- Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
- Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast…
- At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the…
- We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the…
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