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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

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
Truth
Self
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Shocking
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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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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The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
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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
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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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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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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