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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.

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
Mind
Careful
Minds
Except
Else
Someone
Littles
Little
Much

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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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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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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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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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