Ofwoolf Quotes & Sayings

There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun. — Sue Grafton

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. — Orson Scott Card

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them. — Dean Koontz

The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power. — Caroline Myss

If you want to be loved, love. — Seneca The Elder

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. — C. Wright Mills

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. — Harvey S. Firestone

The daughter of the literary biographer Leslie Stephen, and close friend of the innovative biographer of the Victorians, Lytton Strachey, Woolf herself put forward, in 'The New Biography' (1927) (reviewing work by another biographer acquaintance, Harold Nicolson), her own memorable theory of biography, encapsulated in her phrase 'granite and rainbow'. 'Truth' she envisions 'as something of granite-like solidity', and 'personality as
something of rainbow-like intangibility', and 'the aim of biography', she proposes, 'is to weld these two into one seamless whole' (E4 473). The following short biographical account ofWoolf will attempt to keep to the basic granitelike facts that Woolf novices need to know, while also occasionally attending in brief to the more elusive, but equally relevant, matter of rainbow-like personality. — Jane Goldman

The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'. — Jon Elster

There are numerous biographies of Woolf. Biography has been highly influential in shaping the reception ofWoolf 's work, and her life has been as much debated as her writing. I would recommend the following three which
represent three different biographical contexts and a range of positions on Woolf 's life: Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf: A Biography (1972), Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (1996), and Julia Briggs's Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
(2005). There is no one, true biography of Woolf (as, indeed, there cannot be of any subject of biography), but these three mark important phases in the writing and rewriting of Woolf 's life. Hot debate continues over how biographers represent her mental health, her sexuality, her politics, her suicide, and of course her art, and over how we are to understand the latter in relation to all the former points of contention. — Jane Goldman