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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

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Around
Alchemy
Look
Spoken
Wells
Precisely
Everything
Misery
Well
Doubt
Looks
Full
Gorge
Done
Seen
Gorges
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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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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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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A man's sorrow runs uphill true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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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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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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Madness to us means reversion to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.
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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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