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Djuna Barnes: Well, isn't Bohemia...

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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?

Source: Becoming Intimate with the Bohemians, in New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine (19 Nov. 1916; repr. in Djuna Barnes's New York, 1989).
-- Djuna Barnes, (Jun 12 1892-1982), US novelist, poet, illustrator, dramatist; She was critically acclaimed, though not widely read, for her short stories and one-act plays, many of which she illustrated, e.g. Nightwood, 1936.

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