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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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. – Virginia Woolf

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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If you live long enough, youll see that every victory turns into a defeat. – Simone de Beauvoir

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War

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. – Camille Paglia

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War

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my fathers generation. Its a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. – Haruki Murakami

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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. – Diana Trilling

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The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. – Humphrey Carpenter

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Ive just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes… every creative opportunity there is with my music Ive taken. – Santigold

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A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. – Russell Page

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