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I've seen death and I didn't like it.

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
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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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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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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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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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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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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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