writer
who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language
modernist
writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and '30s bohemian Paris
after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village
of the teens. Her novel Nightwood
became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T. S. Eliot
. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian
themes and its distinctive writing style.
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door.
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat.
Well, isn’t Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else — and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.