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Tables Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There…
- ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;…
- So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
- One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table,…
- How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings…
- But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him-…
- Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know…
- 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…
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