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Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

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
Men
Amiss
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Use
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Something

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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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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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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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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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God, children know something they can't tell they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
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To think is to be sick.
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The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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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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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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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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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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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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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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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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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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