"Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?"

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Source : In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in "Paris Was a Woman" by Andrea Weiss, (p. 173), 1995.

Djuna Barnes

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“That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.”
“Everything may be expressed with almost nothing at all”
“Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.”
“Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ***** look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always the answer, and it has the extremely delightful quality of saving your ***** and being completely true at the same time. Use it wisely.”
“If you ask any economist, they'll tell you all the mortgage interest deduction does is raise the price of the house. So a couple is out looking at the house, they say, "Oh, we love this house, but we couldn't make the monthly payment." And the realtor says, "Yeah, but you're going to get a tax break." So people pay more than they would otherwise. You take a loss even though you're making a gain.”
“My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.”
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
“I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.”

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