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Quote by Virginia Woolf

“People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.”

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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

“Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!”

Said Action Higher Harder Rounds Circles Leap Full Circle

Author:Amy Ray

“You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.”

Way Heart May Song Turns Silence Taste Spring Sentences Tongue

Author:Emily Saliers

“Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.”

Wells Hatred Insecurity Rooted Paranoia

Author:Amy Ray

“There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.”

Kindness Duty

Book:Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

“God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'”

Knows Looks Records Silly Checks Odd Guidance Counselor Guidance Counselor Silly Me

Author:Dar Williams

“I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.”

Way Feelings Interesting

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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