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Only the impossible lasts forever.

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
Impossible
Forever
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Philosophical

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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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 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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To think is to be sick.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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