Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
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Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.
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I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
