Virginia Woolf? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Apparently, the prominent English writer Virginia Woolf thought that transmitting knowledge via lectures was a “vain and vicious system”. She also stated that lecturing was “an obsolete practice dating from the Middle Ages”. Would you please help me to find a citation? Reply from Quote Investigator: Virginia Woolf …
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Quote Origin: A Copy of the Universe Is Not What Is Required of Art; One of the Damned Thing Is Ample
Rebecca West? Virginia Woolf? Nelson Goodman? Noam Chomsky? Vita Sackville-West? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Quantum mechanics has an interpretation that envisions many worlds. Also, modal logic has a semantics that features many possible worlds. Yet, the expansive idea of many universes or worlds has waggish detractors. One comical response to this plenteous philosophy states: …
Quote Origin: I Did It For My Own Pleasure. Then I Did It For My Friends. Now I Do It For Money
Virginia Woolf? Molière? Ferenc Molnár? Philippe Halsman? Ad Reinhardt? Question for Quote Investigator: Recently I was invited to conduct a workshop about writing and creativity. While reviewing materials on this topic I repeatedly came across a humorous quotation that pertains to commercialism. Here is one version: Writing is like sex. First you do it for …