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Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.
— Virginia Gildersleeve
To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.
— Virginia Hamilton
What one wants in the person one lives with is that they should keep one at one's best.
— Virginia Woolf
They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love
— Virginia Woolf
Gram was flirting with Ken!
— Virginia Smith
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
— Virginia Woolf
Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill...
— Virginia Alison
Freedom is precious to those who don't have it.
— Virginia Prodan
The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.
— Virginia Postrel
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
— Virginia Postrel
Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ...
— Virginia Woolf
The truer the facts the better the fiction.
— Virginia Woolf
Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry.
— Virginia Woolf
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
— Virginia Woolf
I always wish that you could marry everybody who wants to marry you.
— Virginia Woolf
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
— Virginia Woolf
I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.
— Virginia Postrel
They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines
— Virginia Woolf
But that was too harsh a phrase - could depend so
— Virginia Woolf
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
— Virginia Woolf
She didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.
— Virginia Woolf
Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]
— Virginia Woolf
You need to see that you can compete with the best and win. You've got the right stuff, Joan Sanderson!
— Virginia Smith
The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfect
square, crisp, thick, impervious even to life. — Virginia Woolf
square, crisp, thick, impervious even to life. — Virginia Woolf
I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.
— Ray Dandridge
The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.
— Virginia Clinton Kelley
All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.
— Virginia Woolf
Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.
— Joe Manchin
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
— Virginia Woolf
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
— Alan Bennett
They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason.
— Virginia Woolf
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]
— Virginia Woolf
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
— Virginia Woolf
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
— Virginia Woolf
Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'.
— Virginia Woolf
to teach without zest is a crime.
— Virginia Woolf
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
— Virginia Woolf
For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
— Virginia Woolf
To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
— Virginia Woolf
Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].
— Virginia Woolf
And if someone should see, what matter they?
— Virginia Woolf
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
— Virginia Woolf
When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...
— Virginia Alison
Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder.
— Virginia Woolf
What a lark! What a plunge!
— Virginia Woolf
I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement ...
— Virginia Woolf
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
— Virginia Woolf
It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful.
— Virginia Woolf
Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.
— Virginia Woolf
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
— Virginia Woolf
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
— Virginia Woolf
It's a blank slate here, filled with possibility.
— Suzanne Young