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Thing Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
- Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a…
- A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
- 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…
- I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
- We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
- For nothing was simply one thing.
- The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.
- The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
- Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one…
- What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this…
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the…
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
- I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing…
- Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear…
- A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,…
- The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no…
- I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The…
- The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one…
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