Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 32

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• fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

  Virginia Woolf

  Honesty, Fishing, Morality

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3200, Delphi Classics

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• When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

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  People, Tyres, Wheels

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.939, Delphi Classics

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• The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

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  Race, Fishing, Differences

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3201, Delphi Classics

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• I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

  Virginia Woolf

  Father, Wish, Complacency

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.877, Delphi Classics

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• Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Past, Light

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”, Hogarth P.

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• It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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  Play, Age, Impossible

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.592, Wordsworth Editions

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• Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

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  Thinking, Voice, Doubt

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4325, Delphi Classics

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• Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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  Mean, Events, Littles

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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• He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Ink

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.85, Broadview Press

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• What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Light, Groups

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.143

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• Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

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  Skeletons, Effort, Habit

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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  Wings, Ideas, Nails

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• 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.

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  Wall, Writing, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4517, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

  Virginia Woolf

  Chance, Knows

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• Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

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  Air, Voice, Water

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

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  Book, Self, Suits

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3669, Delphi Classics

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• Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

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  Income, Purses, Bitterness

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.587, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Literature, Ifs

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4409, Delphi Classics

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• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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  Birthday, Running, People

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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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 on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

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  Iron, Yellow, Nerves

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

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  Opposites, Differences, Judging

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3815, Delphi Classics

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• The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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  Heart, Sleep, Thinking

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Mrs Dalloway, Raised

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.14, Broadview Press

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• The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

  Virginia Woolf

  Block, Fall, Names

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.109, Booklassic

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