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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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money
women
writing
virgin
on-writing
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Virginia Woolf |
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And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding... { }
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myth
reason
irreligion
jupiter
minerva
virgin-birth
supreme-being
united-states
virgin
freedom-of-thought
father
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Thomas Jefferson |
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He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.
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the-story-of-a-murderer
smell
principle
olfactory
preservation
virgin
preserve
virginity
scent
perfume
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Patrick Süskind |
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...he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.
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the-things-they-carried
tim-o-brien
virgin
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Tim O'Brien |
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Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.
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virgin
purity
protection
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Karin Slaughter |
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"The child in the middle of the room was glaring at him, for child she was, no matter what her advanced years. She was a virgin, untouched, unkissed, innocent and angry, and he was prepared to enjoy himself immensely. "So tell me, little one. What really brought you here?"
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young-woman
virgin
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Anne Stuart |
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Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.
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preparation
virgin
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Graham Greene |
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Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh - the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy.
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virgin
legend
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Victoria Holt |