A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think
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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
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Arnold Bennett says that the horror of marriage lies in its 'dailiness.' All acuteness of relationship is rubbed away by this. The truth is mo...
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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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?
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