"A perfect treat must include a trip to……" — Virginia Woolf
"A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop."
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Virginia Woolf
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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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…
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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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More Bookshop Quotes
This quote is filed under Bookshop Quotes,
one of 36 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.…
— John Banville
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a…
— David Almond
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
— John Cowper Powys
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Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't…
— Frederick Busch
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a…
— John Grisham
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on…
— Marilyn Hacker
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Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I…
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
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My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that…
— William Gibson
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what…
— Salman Rushdie
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I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some…
— Will Self
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
— Terry Pratchett
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