Quote by Virginia Woolf
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals wi

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, Ive no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. – Virginia Woolf

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Adventure
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Its not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us its the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. – Virginia Woolf

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Age
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf

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amazing
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Other Quotes from
War
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Im tired. Im tired of feeling rejected by the American people. Im tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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War

Daltons records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov

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War

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. – Rand Paul

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War

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. – Colin Quinn

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War

Random Quotes

When you write biographies, whether its about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. – Walter Isaacson

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amazing

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino

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Failure

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields dont really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. – Althea Gibson

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Practice

Were just into toys, whether its motorcycles or race cars or computers. Ive got the Palm Pilot right here with me, Ive got the worlds smallest phone. Maybe its just because Im still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know? – Catherine Bell

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car