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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">People keep emailing me about this and I haven't found time to add a note to the Misquotations page of the VWSGB website: sorry! Like Vara I searched an electronic version of her works for several of the phrases and found none of them.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Did anything sound more unlike Woolf? The language patterning is wrong, there's no development from the initial words, and there's SO much repetition. Woolf would have made her point much more succinctly, and it would have been a more interesting point. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>It's what Stuart would have called madey-uppy.</span><br></div></div><div class="ydp77b2310yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sarah</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>Sarah M. Hall<br>Executive Council<br>Virginia Woolf Society of GB<br>Web: virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk<br>Facebook: @VWSGB<br>Twitter/X: @VirginiaWoolfGB<br>Instagram: @virginiawoolfsociety<br><br></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, 23 February 2025 at 20:49:56 GMT, Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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Hi Jeremy, That's total fiction. I just did a search on the Kindle version of Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works. . There are 37 variations of "Whatever happens" (but not the phrase in the quotation you provided) and there isn't a single</div>
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Hi Jeremy,</div>
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That's total fiction. I just did a search on the Kindle version of <i>Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works.</i>. There are 37 variations of "Whatever happens" (but not the phrase in the quotation you provided) and there isn't a single phrase "stay alive" in any
work by Woolf. It's not Woolf's writing style. </div>
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This webpage does have some of the wording (written by "Joy"): <a shape="rect" id="ydp13ff690byiv0921793132LPlnk" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medium.com/@imma.corvino25/whatever-happens-stay-alive-616cd93e5fdc__;!!KGKeukY!2Qu37M_gjKMnqKJlGDBUcwD8WhM22xPmL5rvaqkzxY0-rA_VU0ETws0AkTJ1pQ-Rjj8UtUCxaKOyL88PbMxCLo2oKmfBANLAueTbTw$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">
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Whatever happens, stay alive. Don't die before you're really dead. Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction. Stay alive, with all of yourself, with every cell in your body, with…</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] misquote</span>
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Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, fill yourself with colors of the world,</div>
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