Djuna Barnes
Novelist
1892-06-12
Books by Djuna Barnes
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Nightwood
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Ladies Almanach
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Ryder
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Quotes by Djuna Barnes
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...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.
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there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust
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She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.
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...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.
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the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.
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there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust
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The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
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She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.
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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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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
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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 adhering to life now with our last muscle- the heart.
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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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She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing.
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