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"But a novel, as I say, to be good should seem, before one writes it, something unwriteable: but only visible; so that for nine months one lives in despair, and only when one has forgotten what one meant, does the book seem tolerable. I assure you, all my novels were first rate before they were written." - Virginia
— May 21, 2025 10:28PM
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"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of the gulf, which words can't cross; that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish." - Virginia
— May 21, 2025 10:29PM
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"The Seafarers Educational Society has bought 2 copies of The Lighthouse. It's an awful thought that the merchant service will be taught navigation by me: or the proper use of foghorns and cylinders." Hahaha!
— May 19, 2025 01:34AM
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"Her real claim to consideration is... her legs. Oh they are exquisite – running like slender pillars up into her trunk, which is that of a breastless cuirassier but all about her is virginal, savage, patrician; and why she writes, which she does with complete competency and a pen of brass, is a puzzle to me. If I were she, I would merely stride, with 11 Elk hounds behind me, through my ancestral woods.’"
— May 04, 2025 01:35AM
