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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
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Uncertainties
Uncertainty

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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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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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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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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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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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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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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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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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