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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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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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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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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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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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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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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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