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 WOOLFI can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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