Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and u…

Virginia Woolf
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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2003). A Writer's Diary, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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