Djuna Barnes Quotes

• I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

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• Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

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• After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.

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

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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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• To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

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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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• This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

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• The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

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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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• 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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• 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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• An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

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• After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.

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• A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

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Djuna Barnes (19)

Birth:	12th June, 1892
Death:	18th June, 1982
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

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Djuna Barnes was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens.

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