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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
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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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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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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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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There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
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To think is to be sick.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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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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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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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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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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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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