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We shouldn't confuse grief over the passing of our favorite technology with resentment because some digital alchemy failed to preserve analog experiences. Whether or not we admit it, the internet and its artifacts are not just like their cultural precedents. They're not even a rough translation -- or a strong misreading -- of those precedents.


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VIRGINIA WOOLF As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of cre...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can on...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
VIRGINIA WOOLF We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for g...
VIRGINIA SATIR A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... ...
VIRGINIA HANSON When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
VIRGINIA GRAHAM Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accid...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of E...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secret...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even slee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
VIRGINIA WOOLF The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF