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Kitty: Oh, you're reading a book?
Laura Brown: Yeah.
Kitty: What's this one about?
Laura Brown: Oh, it's about this woman who's incredibly - well, she's a hostess and she's incredibly confident and she's going to give a party. And, maybe because she's confident, everyone thinks she's fine... but she isn't.

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Richard Brown: Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?

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Virginia Woolf: I was going to kill my heroine. But I've changed my mind. I fear I may have to kill someone else, instead.

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Vanessa Bell: Your aunt is a very lucky woman Angelica. She has two lives. The life she is living, and the book she is writing.

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Clarissa Vaughn: Why is everything wrong?

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Virginia Woolf: Do you think I may one day escape?
Vanessa Bell: One day.

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Virginia Woolf: Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence.

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Richard Brown: I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.

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Virginia Woolf: It's on this day. This day of all days. Her fate becomes clear to her.

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Vanessa Bell: Virginia.
Virginia Woolf: Leonard thinks it's the end of civilization: People who are invited at 4 and arrive at 2:30.
Vanessa Bell: Oh God.
Virginia Woolf: Barbarians.

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Laura Brown: Obviously, you... feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't.

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Clarissa Vaughn: I don't know what's happening to me. I seemed to be unraveling.

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Laura Brown: We're baking the cake to show him that we love him.
Richie Brown: Otherwise he won't know we love him?
Laura Brown: That's right.

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Angelica Bell: What were you thinking about?
Virginia Woolf: I was going to kill my heroine. But I've changed my mind.

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Clarissa Vaughn: He came out behind me. He put his hand on my shoulder..."Good morning, Mrs. Dalloway." From then on I've been stuck.
Louis Waters: Stuck?
Clarissa Vaughn: Yep. With the name, I mean.

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Virginia Woolf: Im dying in this town!

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Sally: Why do I always have to sit next to the exes? Is this some kind of a hint, sweetheart? Anyway, shouldn't the exes have a table of their own, where they can all ex together in ex-quisite agony?

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Richard Brown: Who is this party for?
Clarissa Vaughan: What are you asking, what are you trying to say?
Richard Brown: I'm not trying to say anything. I think I'm staying alive just to satisfy you.

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Richard Brown: We want everything, don't we?
Clarissa Vaughn: I suppose we do.

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Leonard Woolf: Do you think it's possible that bad writing actually attracts a higher incidence of error?