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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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...rapid motion through space elates one.
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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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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
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He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.
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