Djuna Barnes Nightwood Quotes

#1. I had the best sex of my life with a girl I had thought was way out of my league and in love with my dead brother. Yeah, Nash was probably right, if anybody could put up with all the crazy I was rocking I should probably lock her in quick because even I could see how seriously screwed up I am.

Jay Crownover

#2. Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

Jim Jarmusch

#3. No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

Djuna Barnes

#4. Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

Djuna Barnes

#5. No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he has come-some country that he has devoured rather than resided in, some secret land that he has been nourished on but cannot inherit, for the Jew seems to be everythere from nowhere.

Djuna Barnes

#6. The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.

Tom Seaver

#7. Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;

Djuna Barnes

#8. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation
purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Djuna Barnes

#10. Maxon kissed the tip of my nose. "Let's go get dry and watch a movie." "Sounds good.

Kiera Cass

#11. My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.

Uzo Aduba

#12. His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.

Djuna Barnes

#13. If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?

Lysander Spooner

#14. Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

#15. Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given.

Peter E. Gordon