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To think is to be sick.

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
Sick
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Thinking

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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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A man's sorrow runs uphill true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
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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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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
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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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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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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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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
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