Quote by Virginia Woolf
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. – Virginia Woolf

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If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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History
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. – Virginia Woolf

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Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. – T.A.Sachs, in answer to William Habington “Time! where didst thou those years in

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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. – Richard Dawkins

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Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you cant really control life – so youd better live it while its here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. – Jon Hamm

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The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. – Wim Wenders

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For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero. – Michelle Williams

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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