Creative Quotations from . . .
Natalie Clifford Barney
(1876-1972) born on
Oct 31
US author. "She was hostess of a celebrated Parisian literary salon, 1920s-1930s; wrote risque memoirs."
 
   
F
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

R
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
A
"There are. . . intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."
N
"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"
K
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks.""
R: "in "Gods," in "Adam," no. 299 (London), 1962."
A: "In "On Writing and Writers," in "Adam," no. 299 (London), 1962."
N: "In "My Country 'tis of Thee," in "Adam," no. 299 (London), 1962."
K: "Quoted in: George Wickes, The Amazon of Letters, ch. 10 (1976)."



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