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“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.”

Quote by Djuna Barnes

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

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

Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes is a compilation that includes Barnes' early short stories and essays, offering a glimpse into her development as a writer. The collection is celebrated for its exploration of complex characters and social commentary, reflecting the author's unique voice and the avant-garde literary movement of her time. more

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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. more

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“Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.”

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

“When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.”

Want Mind Doe Color Universal Soil Ladders Boston Texture Shovels Cognizant

Book:New York

Source: New York

“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 windows man had caged it with.”

Men Found Water Millions Impossible New York Return Horror Window Rose Wave Caged

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 couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.”

Affection Holes Bridges Heat Gaps Mice Potatoes Shortcomings

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.”

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

“One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.”

Ifs Men Different Would Be Eye Pain Joy Water Tears Mouths Blind Strikes Cups Breasts Shed Consternation

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.”

Men Feels Sides Hell Conditions Conscience Blind Miserable Dumb

Author:Patrick Henry

“Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.”

War Lasts Kings Argument Resorts Subjugation

Author:Patrick Henry

“I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.”

Felt Blood Stirring

Book:Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters : the Early Years

Source: Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters : the Early Years

“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”