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Virginia Woolf has 653 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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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…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.
— Henny Youngman
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
— Mark Twain
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
— Anatole Broyard
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A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river.…
— Anatole Broyard
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A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting…
— Ansen Dibell
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My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back…
— Emilia Clarke
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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being…
— David Lindsay-Abaire
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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the…
— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we…
— Samantha Bee
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I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…
— C.S. Lewis
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His…
— A. E. Hotchner
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a…
— Roald Dahl
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