"For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."

-- Virginia Woolf

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“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.”
“Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible?”

Source : Georgia Cates (2015). “Going Under Complete Duo: Going Under and Shallow”, p.237, Georgia Cates Books LLC
“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.232, Routledge
“You're not always able to choose.”
“I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.”
“Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
“There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.”
“I wanted to look different because I felt different”

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