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I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

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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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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
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I've seen death and I didn't like it.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
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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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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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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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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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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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No man needs curing of his individual sickness his universal malady is what he should look to.
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The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
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Love is the first lie wisdom the last.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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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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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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