"You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any……" — Virginia Woolf
"You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures."
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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 Adulterated Quotes
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a…
— Al-Ghazali
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Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools…
— Leonardo Sciascia
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point…
— Murray Kempton
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Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
— Sena Jeter Naslund
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In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public,…
— Michael Savage
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which…
— Olympia Brown
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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love…
— Kiran Desai
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