American - Novelist | June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
Djuna Barnes
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Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
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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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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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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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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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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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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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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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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