Quotes by Djuna Barnes

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?close quote - Djuna Barnes
Well, is not 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?close quote - Djuna Barnes
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.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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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.close quote - Djuna Barnes
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.close quote - Djuna Barnes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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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.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.close quote - Djuna Barnes
Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.close quote - Djuna Barnes

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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.close quote - Djuna Barnes


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