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To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Why is life so tragic so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down I feel giddy I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
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No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off you slip away you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
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