# Quote — Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

> They never pulled the curtains till it was too dark to see, nor shut the windows till it was too cold. Why shut out the day before it was over? The flowers were still bright; the birds chirped. You could see more in the evening often when nothing interrupted, when there was no fish to order, no telephone to answer.

- Author: [Virginia Woolf](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf.md)
- Book: [Between the Acts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/between-the-acts.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/between-the-acts/they-never-pulled

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> Mrs Swithin took her knitting from the table. 'Did you feel,' she asked, 'what he said: we act different parts but are the same?'

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> 'That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.'

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> Words rose above the intolerably laden dumb oxen plodding through the mud. Words without meaning - wonderful words.

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