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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
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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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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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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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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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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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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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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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
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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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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
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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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For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
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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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To think is to be sick.
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