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Virginia Woolf
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  • Jane Austen,Virginia Woolf, and Alice in Wonderland definitely served to fill the time and keep me company inside my head, but I was really lonely in my actual physical life.†   (source)
  • The movie they chose was the 1966 film version of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor as a husband and wife who invite a much younger couple, played by George Segal and Sandy Dennis, for what turns out to be an intense and grueling evening.†   (source)
  • Virginia Woolf had wonderful hooded eyes and whispered to me unkind and funny things about all the other guests.†   (source)
  • (She sings) Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?†   (source)
  • By Virginia Woolf.†   (source)
  • There is not a single reference in Gottschall's book to such students of the mechanics of storytelling as William Empson, Samuel Johnson, Lionel Trilling, Virginia Woolf, Edmund Wilson, or Randall Jarrell, all of whom brooded long and hard upon stories and their subjects.†   (source)
  • So that's why I chose Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?†   (source)
  • Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf ….†   (source)
  • I'm full-on cheating now, pulling up every Virginia Woolf site I can find.†   (source)
  • HONEY joins in toward the end) Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?†   (source)
  • The quote is from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: …. of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia ……. ah!†   (source)
  • She's quoting Virginia Woolf back to me.†   (source)
  • GEORGE is heard offstage singing "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?†   (source)
  • Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf…… Ha, ha, ha, HA!†   (source)
  • In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, her damaged Great War veteran, Septimus Warren Smith, commits suicide because his enemies are coming to get him.†   (source)
  • Even writers as noted for the absence of action as Virginia Woolf and Anton Chekhov routinely resort to killing off characters.†   (source)
  • Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours (1998) is a reworking of Virginia Woolf's modern classic, Mrs. Dalloway, in which a shell-shocked veteran of the Great War disintegrates and commits suicide.†   (source)
  • Do we really believe that novels or poems by any of these writers, or their contemporaries Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, will be naive?†   (source)
  • When Virginia Woolf writes about women of her time only being permitted a certain range of activities, we do her and ourselves a great disservice by not seeing the social criticism involved.†   (source)
  • Frost's buzz-saw accident would be such an example, as would Little Nell on her deathbed in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) and the death of Mrs. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927).†   (source)
  • Virginia Woolf.†   (source)
  • He had read more Virginia Woolf than I had and he introduced me to the work of Mary Daly and Andrea Dworkin.†   (source)
  • The Grumblochs saw me off, Mr. Grumbloch furnishing me with money orders and Keating's insect powder and Frieda with Cadbury chocolates and Virginia Woolf's latest novel.†   (source)
  • But because he lacks one very basic ability—the ability to mindread— he can be presented with that scene in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and come to a conclusion that is socially completely and catastrophically wrong.†   (source)
  • There were always people about talking of artists I had never heard of, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, and books I had no time to read, T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Mrs. Dalloway, by someone called Virginia Woolf, who came once to Frieda's.†   (source)
  • In the scene in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? where Martha is flirting with Nick while George lurks jealously in the background, our eyes bounce from Martha's eyes to George's to Nick's and around and around again because we don't know what George is going to do.†   (source)
  • That's all the Virginia Woolf I know.†   (source)
  • I can go on quoting Virginia Woolf—believe me, the passage gets even hotter—but I decide I want to quote myself instead.†   (source)
  • (Sings) Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, early in the morning.†   (source)
  • In March of 1941, after three serious breakdowns, Virginia Woolf wrote a note to her husband and walked to a nearby river.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I wish I'd paid more attention to Virginia Woolf, a writer I've never had much use for until now.†   (source)
  • GEORGE and HONEY (Who joins him drunkenly) Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf ….†   (source)
  • I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: "Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic.†   (source)
  • No. GEORGE: (Puts his hand gently on her shoulder; she puts her head back and he sings to her, very softly) Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, MARTHA: I…. am ….†   (source)
  • I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages—so many now—and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: "Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs….†   (source)
  • Title: A Room of One's Own Author: Virginia Woolf ONE.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf.†   (source)
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