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«I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.»
«Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time»
«A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction»
«When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
audience, conclusions, controversial, drawing, highly, idiosyncrasies, idiosyncrasy, limitations, observe, prejudices, speaker, Speaker of, subject, To Tell the Truth
«Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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bags, current, gas, Mean Business, puncture, punctured, punctures, Seeds, The Current, The Seeds
«I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.»
«The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Communication
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antagonistic, communicate, enigmatic, general interest, in general, largely, lie in, persuadable, relations, third party, to each other
«Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!»
«Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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all four, corners, ever so, Four Corners, lightly, perceptible, scarcely, spider, spider web, web
«Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
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Beyond Reason, minded, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, wreckage
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