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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
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Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.
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Life is the great teacher.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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As you are now so once were we.
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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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Deal with him, Hemingway!
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There is not past, no future everything flows in an eternal present.
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I'll tickle his catastrophe.
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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
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I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.
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