Virginia Woolf Quotes, Glorious Life Quotes, Curves Quotes

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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Language is wine upon the lips.

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There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

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Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

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Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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