“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)

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American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892–1982

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