No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly… - Djuna Barnes

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No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

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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Nightwood is demanding. You can slide into it, because the prose has a narcotic quality, but you can’t slide over it. The language is not about conveying information; it is about conveying meaning.

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.

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality. - Djuna Barnes

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