Virginia Woolf Quotes
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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Silence is also conversation.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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Silence is my dignity.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
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Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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When I grow too old and dull to rock 'n rollLike to hold on tight to you darlingAnd when my fires have all burned outI'd like to think I can still think aboutThe things I used to sing aboutWhen I was spending all my time aloneBy myself and on my ownSeldom seen and quite unknown.
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I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
