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The sea was indistinguishable ...

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I'm fundamentally, I think, an...

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The poet is always our contemp...

The poet is always our contemporary.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

reading [poetry], you know, is...

reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response) ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

more and more I come to loathe...

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

You would get longer livelier ...

You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I was lying in bed this mornin...

I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Why, he wondered, did people w...

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

How are we to account for the ...

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Theories then are dangerous th...

Theories then are dangerous things.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

travelers are much at the merc...

travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For there is a virtue in truth...

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

scarcely a human being in the ...

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

war is a man's game ... the ki...

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Women alone stir my imaginatio...

Women alone stir my imagination ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

What is a woman? I assure you,...

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Lord, how tired one gets of on...

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

a novelist's chief desire is t...

a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy a

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What a labour writing is ... m...

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 know whom to write for is t...

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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