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

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. – Virginia Woolf

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? – Virginia Woolf

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. – Alison Lurie

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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. – St. Jerome

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War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood

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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – George Orwell

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By keeping my hand in that, its the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients. – Andrew Weil

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I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. – Heidi Klum

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It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude. – Norm MacDonald

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We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously–to love each other, hate each other–but then–it isnt true. It isnt true, we dont care at all! – Ugo Betti

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