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James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
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Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk
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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
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Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.
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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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...rapid motion through space elates one.
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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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