"No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into..."

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Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.96, Faber & Faber

Djuna Barnes

#Mind Quotes #Littles Quotes #Be Careful Quotes

“A fool and his money are soon married.”
“Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.”
“In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.”
“My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.”
“It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.”
“I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism â€” ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world â€” Death is only an incident in Life.”

Source : "Joseph Vance". Book by William De Morgan, Chapter XI, 1906.
“And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.”

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