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It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, ” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.Ross Wetzsteon
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There is only one thing left for you to do, ” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.Ross Wetzsteon
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[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,Ross Wetzsteon
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As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.Ross Wetzsteon
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Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.Ross Wetzsteon