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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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If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not…
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No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and…
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Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist…
— Alice Clayton
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I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say,…
— Mike Wallace
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Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying…
— Virginia Woolf
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Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's…
— Maya Angelou
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And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference…
— Richelle Mead
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In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Its always so easy to say simply what you really think, than why we keep thinking how to say or give another…
— Senoraroy
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