"Destiny and history are untidy."

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Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

Djuna Barnes

#Destiny Quotes

“As a woman, for example, I live and work very much like a man. I take a lot of things from the man's world and I have to do that if I want to survive modern life. Conversely, men have to take things from the woman's world to survive. It's a very beautiful thing that you have to mold your own gender nowadays. But it's a very stressful thing for us.”
“As you'll come to know, the closer you get to your goal, the more it draws you in; success feeds on success. It's like a gravitational pull. Once you get into a rhythm, it's hard to stop. You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus.”
“The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.”
“Example is leadership.”
“When we shift our perception, our experience changes.”
“Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.”
“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”
“They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.”

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