Djuna Barnes Quotes
One sees you sitting in the sun Asleep; With the sweeter gifts you had And didn't keep, One grieves that the altars of Your vice lie deep.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
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The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
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One sees you sitting in the sun Asleep; With the sweeter gifts you had And didn't keep, One grieves that the altars of Your vice lie deep.
