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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 is done.
- I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and…
- The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the…
- What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now…
- 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…
- But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up…
- The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably…
- Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
- Use words that soak up life.
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
- Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl…
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in…
- Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living…
- 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…
- Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
- For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...
- ...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon…
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