To think is to be sick…
– Djuna Barnes
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- there’s something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust – Djuna Barnes
- the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays. – Djuna Barnes
- The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. – Djuna Barnes
- None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last. – Djuna Barnes
- I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes. – Djuna Barnes
- You want to know what I want? I’m sick of being a guinea pig. I’m sick, but I’m never f*cking sick enough for this family. – Jodi Picoult
- Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you. – Morrissey
- He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. – James Joyce
- I’m sick of the images trapped in my headI’m sick of being preoccupied with the dead – JessicaLynn Barbour
- We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.- -“ Kevin W. Reese – Kevin W Reese
- A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. – Ben Okri
- To conform to a sick society is to become sick. – Richard J Foster
- sick of it whatever it’s called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what’s here – Ikkyu
- There’s only one thing worse than being sick…and that’s being sick and poor. – Lou Silluzio
- I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. – Henry V ONeil
- Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can’t even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick. – Meg Cabot
- Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up. – Lacey Sturm
- When you’re sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you’re passionate and sick, you’ll find a way to write down something. – BA Gabrielle
- You are a sick, sick man,- I told him.-œThank you,- Ben replied, looking modest. – Patricia Briggs
- Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. – Julian Barnes
- It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start. – Brynne Barnes
- Pride makes us long for a solution to things -“ a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. – Julian Barnes
- Home isn’t a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn’t what poor items they would be. – Julian Barnes
- The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. – Julian Barnes
- The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. – Julian Barnes
- History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. – Julian Barnes
- you find yourself repeating, -˜They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays. – Julian Barnes
- What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn’t behave as he would have done in a book? – Julian Barnes
- Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is ‘success’ in mourning? – Julian Barnes
- What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed. – Julian Barnes
- …I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. – Julian Barnes
- God’s kingdom is not the most exciting thing to seek, but the most rewarding thing to find. – ELWReta Barnes
- If it bothers you to see me when then stop looking. – Victoria Barnes
- wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment. – Julian Barnes
- May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. – Julian Barnes
- I cannot explain what’s between us, Lady Newbury, other than to say that I have an uncanny urge to kiss you whenever we meet. – Sophie Barnes
- Sorry if this little war’s inconvenienced you in any way,- Indris drawled. -œI’ll try to schedule the next one with you in mind – Mark T Barnes
- I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes