“Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?”

— Djuna Barnes

In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in Paris Was a Woman (1995) by Andrea Weiss, p. 173 http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/library.htm

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American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892–1982

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