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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Forward
Youth
Ends
Past
Conference
Great
Conferences
Time
Planning
Legs
Putting

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