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Djuna Barnes, an American writer, was born on June 12, 1892, and died on June 18, 1982. She is known for her unique literary style and profound modernist thoughts.

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All Men Nightwood Love Littles Mind Life Is Thinking Djuna Barnes Knows Night

Famous Djuna Barnes Quotes

“Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.”

May Stills Moving Night Fire Comfort Skins Bones Flesh Temples Torment Ache Fury

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“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.”

Men Mind Moments Walks Known Feet Hair Abandon Boots Risen Corridors Gnarly

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?”

Ruins Inequality Endurance Depravity

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.”

Mind Galaxy Priceless Misinformation

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.”

Necks Throat

Author:Djuna Barnes

“An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.”

Mind Uncertainty

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“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?”

Wells Littles Waiter Bohemian Bohemia

Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

About the Author

Born: June 12, 1892
Died: June 18, 1982
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 107

Books & Sources

NightwoodRelated source material

Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna BarnesRelated source material

Nightwood: The Original Version and Related DraftsRelated source material

Collected StoriesRelated source material

New YorkRelated source material

Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the MemoirsRelated source material

Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides, Their Moons and Their Changes, the Seasons as it is with Them, Their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal DistempersRelated source material

The Book of Repulsive Women and Other PoemsRelated source material

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