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Quote by Djuna Barnes

“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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Djuna Barnes

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

“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

“Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.”

People Asks Pieces Mines Conversation Marvelous Rolex Timepieces

Author:Maurice Chevalier

“No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.”

Years Hands Careers Happened

Author:Jane Lynch

“Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.”

Speak Let Me Angry Meetings Flying Vigorous Analysts