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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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