She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole. - Djuna Barnes
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
- Djuna Barnes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. - Djuna Barnes
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. - Djuna Barnes
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. - Djuna Barnes
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
Only the impossible lasts forever. - Djuna Barnes
Only the impossible lasts forever.
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. - Djuna Barnes
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have… - Djuna Barnes
The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have…
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. - Djuna Barnes
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million… - Djuna Barnes
New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million…
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