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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. "
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: food, love
240 people liked it

"When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: bookworms, heavenly, judgment, reading, rewards
141 people liked it

"For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: writing
81 people liked it

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size. "
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

48 people liked it

"I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: age
46 people liked it

"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

38 people liked it

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art"
— Virginia Woolf (The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 4)

35 people liked it

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."
— Virginia Woolf

33 people liked it

"Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

tags: books, read, reading
20 people liked it

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: rena, silverman, virginia, woolf
43 people liked it

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

tags: horse, wild
29 people liked it

"He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams."
— ~ Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

9 people liked it

"Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves."
— Virginia Woolf

5 people liked it

"[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

4 people liked it

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'."
— Virginia Woolf (The Waves)

tags: clouds, star
24 people liked it

"Growing up is loosing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: growing, illusions, life, up
23 people liked it

"Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. "
— Virginia Woolf (The Waves)

11 people liked it

"For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn..."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

5 people liked it

"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

tags: book, books, face, faces, pages, search, shop, shops, window, windows
6 people liked it

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas)

tags: calming, reassuring, true
27 people liked it

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: books, library
15 people liked it

"I never change, I simply become more myself."
— Joyce Carol Oates

77 people liked it

"My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish."
— Joyce Carol Oates

4 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,519 people liked it

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
— Emily Brontë

tags: love
394 people liked it

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: love, morning
174 people liked it

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics
959 people liked it

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: blues, god, life, music
528 people liked it

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
— Kurt Vonnegut

376 people liked it

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

319 people liked it

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
— Kurt Vonnegut

157 people liked it

"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way to make life more bearable."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

138 people liked it

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
— Kurt Vonnegut

130 people liked it

"You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Jailbird)

tags: food
62 people liked it

"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

tags: humanity
80 people liked it

"I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Timequake)

47 people liked it

"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

26 people liked it

"Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Bluebeard)

10 people liked it

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
— Kurt Vonnegut

19 people liked it

"All moments, past, present, and future always have existed, always will exist...It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."
— Kurt Vonnegut

5 people liked it

"There love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)

11 people liked it

"Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide."
— Kurt Vonnegut

19 people liked it

"That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Deadeye Dick)

4 people liked it

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: adult, age
82 people liked it

"Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
— Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)

24 people liked it

"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"
— Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)

16 people liked it

"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
— Edith Wharton

11 people liked it

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor, money
318 people liked it

"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."
— Dorothy Parker

104 people liked it

"I hate writing, I love having written."
— Dorothy Parker

80 people liked it

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