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I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache....The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.'† (source)
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And what had happened to one writer, Virginia Woolf.† (source)
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So that's why I chose Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?† (source)
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She had read Virginia Woolf's The Waves three times and thought that a great transformation was being worked in human nature itself, and that only fiction, a new kind of fiction, could capture the essence of the change.† (source)
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She hasn't read Virginia Woolf yet.† (source)
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I will drink a giant ice-wet shaker of gin, and I will swallow sleeping pills, and when no one is looking, I'll drop silently over the side, my pockets full of Virginia Woolf rocks.† (source)
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Norah smoldered, disdained and envied Bree, bit her tongue; Bree took classes on Virginia Woolf, moved in with the manager of a health-food restaurant in Louisville, and stopped coming by.† (source)
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She was an English major at Mount Sebastian, and she wrote beautifully about her professors and roommates and midterm exams, about her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf.† (source)
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Virginia Woolf, for example, was the only modern British woman writer who made the cut at a lot of schools.† (source)
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Postcards of authors are taped to the wall over her desk, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf.† (source)
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The quote is from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion.† (source)
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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)
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You don't want to go Virginia Woolf.† (source)
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Or Virginia Woolf?† (source)
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Virginia Woolf had wonderful hooded eyes and whispered to me unkind and funny things about all the other guests.† (source)
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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)
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