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Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind. — Virginia Gildersleeve

What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. — 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

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. — Virginia Woolf

Gram was flirting with Ken! — Virginia Smith

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty. — 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

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful. — Virginia Graham

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever. — Virginia Postrel

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

Gran always said our West Virginia mountains is like the bosom of the Almighty, keeping us protected and still in Him. — Marilyn Sue Shank

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. — Virginia Satir

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

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her. — Priya Parmar

He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings. — Virginia Woolf

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime? — Anthony Kennedy

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own. — Virginia Postrel

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant. — Virginia Smith

O friendship, how piercing are your darts - there, there, again there. — Virginia Woolf

I have been longing for inner consistency. — Virginia Woolf

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified. — Virginia Woolf

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life. — Virginia Woolf

Why Family Therapy ... because it deals with family pain. — Virginia Satir

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. — Virginia Woolf

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — Virginia Woolf

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God. — Virginia Lieto

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation. — Marion Barry

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them. — Virginia Wade

To love makes one solitary. — Virginia Woolf

We are not as simple as our friends would have us to meet their ends. — Virginia Woolf

Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world... — Virginia Alison

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending. — Virginia Woolf

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control. — Virginia Woolf

All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf

I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel. — Virginia Woolf

I love tremendous and sonorous words. — Virginia Woolf

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. — Virginia Woolf

Even the moon cannot escape your intoxicating charms... — Virginia Alison

Ignore the world when it forgets to tell you that you are beautiful...A goddess needs no reminding... — Virginia Alison

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. — Virginia Woolf

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? — Virginia Woolf

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf

There is little blood in my arm, Isabella repeated. — Virginia Woolf

People are - nothing more. — Virginia Woolf

She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest. — Virginia Woolf

Loveliness is infernally sad. — Virginia Woolf

Extremes of feeling are allied to madness; — Virginia Woolf

She would not say of anyone that they were this or that. — Virginia Woolf

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia. — Robert E.Lee

Life and a lover — Virginia Woolf

It is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams — Virginia Woolf

. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest. — Virginia Woolf

Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words]. — Virginia Woolf

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you. — 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

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

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. — Virginia Woolf

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement ... — Virginia Woolf

What a lark! What a plunge! — Virginia Woolf

Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder. — Virginia Woolf

Women made civilisation impossible with all their "charm " all their silliness. — 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

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. — Virginia Woolf

And if someone should see, what matter they? — Virginia Woolf

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — 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

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. — 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

to teach without zest is a crime. — Virginia Woolf

Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'. — Virginia Woolf

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. — Virginia Woolf

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. — Virginia Woolf

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.] — Virginia Woolf

They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason. — 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

I always wish that you could marry everybody who wants to marry you. — Virginia Woolf

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. — Virginia Woolf

We hunger for quiet times; we find in them a womb to renew our strength. — Virginia Ann Froehle

I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name. — Virginia Woolf

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it. — Virginia Woolf

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. — Virginia Madsen

This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging monster to whom we are attached. — Virginia Woolf

It was one of those unclassified affections of which there are so many. — 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

The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers. — 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

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ... — Virginia Woolf

When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason... — Virginia Alison

But that was too harsh a phrase - could depend so — Virginia Woolf

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories? — Virginia Woolf

It's a blank slate here, filled with possibility. — Suzanne Young

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold. — 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