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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

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
Misinformation
Priceless
Galaxy
Called
Mind

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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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To think is to be sick.
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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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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.
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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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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.
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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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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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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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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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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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