Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid Quotes

“Thinking is my fighting.”
― Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

“Passages in Far Away and Long Ago will undoubtedly go to posterity entire. Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe – immense in daring, terrific in disaster. And so, picking and choosing, we select now this, now that, hold it up for display, hear it defended or derided, and finally have to meet the objection that even so we are only agreeing with the critics that it is an age incapable of sustained effort, littered with fragments, and not seriously to be compared with the age that went before.”
― Virginia Woolf, Thoughts On Peace In an Air Raid

“That current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people, fighting to defend freedom.”
― Virginia Woolf, Thoughts On Peace In an Air Raid

“New books lure us to read them partly in the hope that they will reflect this re-arrangement of our attitude – these scenes, thoughts, and apparently fortuitous groupings of incongruous things which impinge upon us with so keen a sense of novelty – and, as literature does, give it back into our keeping, whole and comprehended.”
― Virginia Woolf, Thoughts On Peace In an Air Raid

“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, Thoughts On Peace In an Air Raid