"On the outskirts of every agony sits..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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“Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.”
“She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.”
“The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.”