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That complete statement which is literature.
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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
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To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall...
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It's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
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Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
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Jealousy... survives every other passion of mankind...
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It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been described.
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Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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The humane art which owes its origin to the love of friends.
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A party makes things either much more real or much less real.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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The flowers flashed before they faded. She watched them flash.
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They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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But I think I'm coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem
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Born:
January 25, 1882
Died:
March 28, 1941
(aged 59)
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