For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me,… - Djuna Barnes

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

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Alternative Names: Lydia Steptoe

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She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.

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

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