Variant: [W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.
Source: Role Models
“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 2, p. 26
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Virginia Woolf 382
English writer 1882–1941Related quotes
“Too many songs have been written about love already, you know? Subject's covered.”
About why The Clash focuses on political songs.
Interview on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder on 5 June 1981.
in John 20:30-31 as quoted in www.ewtn.com http://www.ewtn.com/ewtn/bible/search_bible.asp#ixzz2yvGxUYR6
Gospel of John
As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994)
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”
James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), p. 213.
Criticism
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet