Djuna Barnes: Well

Djuna Barnes was American Modernist writer, poet and artist. Explore interesting quotes on well.

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“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself — and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 6 : Where the Tree Falls

“Well, isn’t Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else — and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?”

Djuna Barnes

Becoming Intimate with the Bohemians, New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine (19 November 1916)