"Moreover, a book is not made of sentences……" — Virginia Woolf
"Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes."
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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 Arcades Quotes
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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a…
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You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow…
— Gail Ann Dorsey
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There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room…
— Walter Benjamin
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Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.
— Trip Hawkins
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Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been…
— Peter James
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To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.
— Eugene Jarvis
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Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens…
— Peter Zumthor
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I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more…
— Brandi Chastain
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I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.
— Jane Lynch
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I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster…
— Melissa Rauch
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind…
— Jack McBrayer
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It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her…
— Robert Earl Keen
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