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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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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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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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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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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's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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To think is to be sick.
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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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