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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

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
Mind
Uncertainties
Uncertainty
Image
Stop
Makes

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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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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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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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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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To think is to be sick.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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 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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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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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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The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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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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