Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist
Greenwich Village as It Is, in Pearson’s Magazine (October 1916)
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”
— Bob Dylan, book Chronicles: Volume One
Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1
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