"There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole."

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Source : Djuna Barnes, Rebecca Loncraine (2003). “The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems”, p.11, Psychology Press

Djuna Barnes

#Shattered Quotes #Surface Quotes

“The more educated the people, the freer they are.”

Source : "'West has no idea what a dictatorship is' - Che Guevara's daughter to RT". RT Interview, www.rt.com. November 20, 2014.
“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
“My brother, who's a few years older then me, went to college in New York. He said all of these people from Saturday Night Live do improv together in Upright Citizens Brigade, and I thought, "Oh, that sounds really cool." So when I got braces and couldn't play music anymore, I said to my parents that I wanted to go to New York and take a class at that place. They were remarkably on board with it. I got on the train, went up, took a class and I loved it.”
“I think I've done more right than wrong on foreign policy. I've criticized the president for being weak and indecisive. I've been a problem solver in Washington and I think I've got something to offer the party and nation.”
“Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.290
“I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.”
“I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.”

Source : "The Confession of an Octogenaria". Book by LP Jacks, p. 99, 1942.
“I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.”

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