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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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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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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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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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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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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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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
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Only the impossible lasts forever.
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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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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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No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.
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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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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 unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
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