Facts about Djuna Barnes

Occup.	Novelist
From	USA
Born	June 12, 1892
Died	June 18, 1982
Aged	90 years

Summary

Djuna Barnes was a famous Novelist from USA, who lived between June 12, 1892 and June 18, 1982. He/she became 90 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Djuna.

16 Famous quotes by Djuna Barnes

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed"

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"Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty"

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"The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind"

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"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart"

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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 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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"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact"

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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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"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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"What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?"

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

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"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties"

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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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"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward"

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