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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'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
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A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
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I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow,…
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No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.…
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a…
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Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number…
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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
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I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
— St. Vincent
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I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
— Gordon Getty
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If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
— Walt Disney
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
— Jasper Fforde
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