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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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Grandmother
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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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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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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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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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 is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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 truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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