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What one wants in the person one lives with is that they should keep one at one's best. — Virginia Woolf

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. — Virginia Woolf

It's my choice, to choose how to live my life. — Virginia Woolf

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. — Aleatha Romig

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf

It's Coke, my man. You really think I'm going to let you pour any more alcohol into your body tonight? — Jason Jack Miller

A writer's letters should be as literary as his printed works. — Virginia Woolf

There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech. — Frank Beamer

Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work. — Virginia Woolf

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. — Virginia Woolf

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses] — Virginia Woolf

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! — Virginia Woolf

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery

Numbered are the days
of hunger stricken strays
a woman's curving taste
a paper police state. — Virginia Petrucci

West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor. — Rick Bragg

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either. — Jay Leno

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. — Virginia Postrel

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives. — Virginia Wade

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out. — Virginia Wade

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. — John Sergeant Wise

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf

Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time's clock with one blow. Come closer. — Virginia Woolf

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. — Virginia Woolf

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. — Virginia Woolf

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. — Virginia Woolf

I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape. — Virginia Woolf

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. — Virginia Woolf

A woman's strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence... — Virginia Alison

Would you look at you two? What's the special occa-ouch! — Virginia Smith

Women's rights, that antediluvian topic. — Virginia Woolf

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. — Virginia Woolf

It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off . — Harry Carpenter

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right. — Virginia Foxx

Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? — Virginia Woolf

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. — Virginia Woolf

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort. — Virginia Woolf

It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness. — Virginia Woolf

Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me. — Virginia Woolf

It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true. — Virginia Alison

West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Budgie's had a nice lunchtime crowd, but we found a table — Virginia Brown

Oh! thought Clarissa, in the middle of my party, here's death, she thought. — Virginia Woolf

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read. — Lucinda Riley

No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes. — Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf had to ask herself How can one weigh and shape dialogue till each sentence tears the shingles in the bottom of the reader's soul? — Virginia Woolf

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. — Virginia Satir

S/M is about emotion, the erotic tension between my impulse toward something and my resistance against it. — Virginia Baker

Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them. — Jason Jack Miller

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em. — Isabel Scott Rorick

For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards. — Virginia Woolf

Any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm. — Virginia Woolf

I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this. — Alison Bechdel

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person. — Virginia Woolf

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. — Ice-T

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. — Virginia Graham

The rain - " That's all I remember hearing to begin with. "It's in the rain," and everyone staring at the radio as if it was a TV. — Virginia Bergin

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf

No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's. — Virginia Satir

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

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water? — Virginia Woolf

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. — Virginia Satir

Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory. — Virginia Vayna

We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another. — Virginia H. Pearce

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf

It's a mistake to lie to a librarian, you know. Some people assume we're shy and gullible, but we know how to dig up the dirt. — Virginia Lowell

And I suppose have only made myself more unpopular: ah yes: but freer. That's the point. — Virginia Woolf

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that. — Virginia Woolf

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive. — Virginia Wade

Life's bare as a bone. — Virginia Woolf

You're a drunk, and it's no wonder your husband stays in West Virginia. — Adriana Trigiani

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

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

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

They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines — Virginia Woolf

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

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one? — Virginia Woolf

Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet. — Virginia Axline

War is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male. — Virginia Woolf

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

Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it's like I'm breathing through them. — Heather Day Gilbert

Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters ... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian. — Virginia Johnson

I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it's the blue that lasts. — Virginia Woolf

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. — Virginia Woolf

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. — Virginia Woolf

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns. — Virginia Wade

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

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing. — Virginia Woolf

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. — Rod Laver

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius. — Amity Gaige

Cracker Barrel's dining room bustled with activity. Joan had to raise her voice to be heard by Eve, who sat at the — Virginia Smith

To let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened!
But why turn one's head hither and thither? This is the truth. This is fact. — Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare's state of mind — Virginia Woolf

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean. — Virginia Petrucci

It was January. Snow was falling; snow had fallen all day. The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers where falling all over England. — Virginia Woolf

Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order. — Virginia Aird

In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera. — Virginia Madsen