Djuna Barnes Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
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I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
