Virginia Woolf Quotes
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Woolf, Virginia. "Professions for Women." The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, Hogarth Press, 1942.
At the time he was referring to the George W. Bush administration which maintained a passive policy on global warming issues. Gore opined that Bush would be forced to deal with the problem shortly as the scientific and physical evidence was mounting.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was actually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was posthumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
