My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machines — always buzzing, humming, soaring, diving, and then buried in a bog. And the only way in which I can manage it and make it work is by turning off the head and letting it go its own way.
— Virginia Woolf Modern

Modernist novelist

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Letter to Julian Bell

Date / Period

1931

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Humorous

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