“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a …”

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. When one can have the cooked flesh, why have the raw?”

— Virginia Woolf

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Title: Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf
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Diary entry on James Joyce's Ulysses (16 August 1922), quoted in Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary (1953; 1965), p. 47

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Woolf, Virginia. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

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