[Vwoolf] Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf--from GK

Jean Mallinson annaj at telus.net
Sat Feb 4 17:17:13 EST 2017


Thanks for this interesting article and for the link, which I have now 
book-marked.

Jean Mallinson


On 2/4/2017 4:35 AM, Mary Ellen Foley wrote:
> This rather useful site has information on the quotation, and on how 
> it might have come to be attributed to Woolf:
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> http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/17/for-pleasure-for-money/#more-1850
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> mef
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> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Stuart N. Clarke 
> <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>> wrote:
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>     So this is what they mean about the post-truth era:
>     She [VW] said: “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love,
>     then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
>     Stuart
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