“Ah God! she settles down we say;
It means her powers slip away
It means she draws back day by day
From good or bad.”

—  Djuna Barnes

From Third Avenue On
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)

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American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892–1982

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