Djuna Barnes Quotes

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Djuna Barnes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982

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There's a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.

Andie MacDowell

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Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

Shura

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There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops.

Robin Sloan

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Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

Mike Pompeo

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Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Nutter

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I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

Janette Turner Hospital

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I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Diane Keaton

PastMeKeyAlwaysEverythingBeen

To me, discomfort is a gift in the films that I'm making.

Derek Cianfrance

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I like to check out of reality for a little bit when I listen to music and kind of go somewhere, so I feel like the more broken-down acoustic songs tell stories to me the best.

Chord Overstreet

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We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.

Bob Iger

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I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.

Arija Bareikis

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