Creative Quotations from Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972)

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.

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Eternity -- waste of time.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Quoted in: Adam, "Gods," no. 299 (London, 1962).
R:	Quoted in: George Wickes, The Amazon of Letters, ch. 10 (1976).
A:	Quoted in: "My Country 'tis of Thee" in Adam, no. 299 (London, 1962).
N:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
K:	Quoted in: "Gods," in Adam, no. 299 (London, 1962).