QuoteQuest“But can we go to posterity with a sheaf of loose pages, or ask the readers of those days, with the whole of literature before them, to sift our enormous rubbish heaps for our tiny pearls? Such are the questions which the critics might lawfully put to their companions at table, the novelists and poets.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
"How It Strikes a Contemporary"
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Woolf, Virginia. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Virginia Woolf. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
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