If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- 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.
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- 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?
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Best Quotes
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
- I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
- When art wins, everyone wins.
- We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
- May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
- It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
- If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
- My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.