“Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.”

— Djuna Barnes

Letter to Emily Holmes Coleman (2 February 1934) 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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