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Literary Critic Inspirational Quotes (30051)

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
Virginia Woolf
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I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.
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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth deforms the mind fetters the will.
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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
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We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.
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old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
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Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
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How remorseless life is!
Virginia Woolf
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