Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf
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More quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- 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.
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
- Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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