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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
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Lydia Steptoe
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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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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston one goes to the Bowery.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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To think is to be sick.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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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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My war brought me many things let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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