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Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.”

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British modernist writer, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound portrayal of female experience. Her works include 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Mrs. Dalloway'. more

“The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”

Mind Heart Rooms Divine Habit Charity Intellect Breathe Tolerance Senses Faculty Alas Cannibal Magnanimity Kindliness

Author:Virginia Woolf

“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.”

Views Support Clothes Wearing A Dress

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“That complete statement which is literature.”

Literature Statements

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.”

Ifs Player Football Be Good Paris Shopping Footballer Beckham

Author:Michel Patini

“I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.”

Ifs Said Faces Certain Coaches Face To Face

Author:Samir Nasri

“When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.”

Stories Space Effects Roots Clearing

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.”

Generations Gas Furniture Chandeliers

Book:The letters of Edith Wharton

Source: The letters of Edith Wharton

“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.”

Mind Long Enough Able Wealth Secret Vision Objects Originality Gems Fruition Knowledge And Experience New Vision Personal Vision Wealth Of Knowledge

Author:Edith Wharton

“Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.”

Believe Art Materials Cooks Works Of Art Sensations Ingredients Raw Materials Pudding Intervening

Author:Edith Wharton

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