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Literary Critic Inspirational Quotes (30050)

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Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.
Lewis Mumford
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Maurice Blanchot
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Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
Edward Young
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
Virginia Woolf
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
Virginia Woolf
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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
Virginia Woolf
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When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?
Virginia Woolf
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He was a thorough good sort a bit limited a bit thick in the head yes but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.
Virginia Woolf
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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Virginia Woolf
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
Virginia Woolf
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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Virginia Woolf
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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
Virginia Woolf
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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
Virginia Woolf
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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
Virginia Woolf
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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
Virginia Woolf
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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Virginia Woolf
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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
Virginia Woolf
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf
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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
Virginia Woolf
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Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?
Virginia Woolf
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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
Virginia Woolf
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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
Virginia Woolf
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