Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFShe dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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