Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf · The Common Reader (1925), Lady Dorothy Nevill

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Virginia Woolf

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Virginia Woolf · From her last letter to her husband Leonard, 28 March 1941; the sentence before it reads "What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you."

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Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein · The source reads: “Remarks are not literature [said to Hemingway].” · The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), said to Hemingway

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

L. P. Hartley · The first sentence of The Go-Between.

The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make.

H. M. Tomlinson · The Sea and the Jungle (1912)

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“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”

“Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”

“Remarks are not literature.”

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

“The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make.”