I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
Djuna Barnes Quotes
After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.
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| 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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