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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
Life
Nasty
Painful
Case
Short
Cases
Funny

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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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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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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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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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