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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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Famous Djuna Barnes Quotes

“Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.”

Thinking Littles Made Feelings Faces Hair Lips Block Saving Hammers Calculations Unbroken Uncanny Tassels

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

“I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished”

Giving Humans Littles Doe Dies Common Silence Dignity Touched Restraint Human Experience

Author:Djuna Barnes

“When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.”

People Littles Book School Land Dying Arms Shapes Summer Shadow Rounds Patterns Boxes Autumn Squares Fragile Headings Lofty Fading Hurrying

Book:New York

Source: New York

“Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.”

Men Feels Littles Doe Can Do Creative Identity Humble

Author:Djuna Barnes

“My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.”

Mind Littles War Hands Remember Life Is Safe Careful Loud Be Careful You Like It Lady Macbeth

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into.”

Mind Littles Careful Be Careful

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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