Quotes by Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

Accounts

Men

Shadow

After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.

Necks

Throat

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

Contemplative Life

Effort

Feet

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Life Is

Nasty

People

God, children know something they can’t tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

Bed

Children

Riding

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Criticism

Eye

Giving

I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

Cows

Humble

Wind

I’ve seen death and I didn’t like it.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for – or ignored.

Class

Paper

Peppermint

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

Life Is

Loud

You Like It

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Betrayed

Block

Bohemian

Bones

Boston

Breakup

Brides

Children

Civilization

Class

Color

Contemplative Life

Cows

Creative

Criticism

Curves

Depravity

Doors

Doubting Everything

Effort

Endurance

Eye

Feet

Fire

Flesh

Funny

Girl

Giving

Gorges

Hair

Hands

Hard Work

Hazards

Heart

Honesty

Humble

Inward

Joy

Judgment

Lasts

Legs

Liars

Life Is

Life Is Short

Littles

Looks

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Quotes by Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

God, children know something they can’t tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

I’ve seen death and I didn’t like it.

If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for – or ignored.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

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