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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.
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I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
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The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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My war brought me many things let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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To think is to be sick.
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No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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