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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Mind
Uncertainties
Uncertainty
Image
Stop
Makes

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To think is to be sick.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
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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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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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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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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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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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