The Letters of Virginia Woolf Quotes

“I’m so odd, and I’m so limited, and I’m so different from the ordinary human being—so you say. I have a strong suspicion that I’m the simplest of you all, and that it's my extreme transparency that baffles you. I dont think I ever feel anything but the most ordinary emotions.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Four, 1929-1931

“...yes, the plague of half wits from America is already considerable, and one can't even be pleased with their compliments, since they are clearly incapable of adding 2 to 2.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Four, 1929-1931

“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong way- something like that: from timidity, partly, one keeps one's eyes on one's own road.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Four, 1929-1931