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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

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
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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