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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 age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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There's no police like Holmes.
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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
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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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Does nobody understand?
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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Redheaded women buck like goats.
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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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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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...rapid motion through space elates one.
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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses
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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
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There's many a true word spoken in jest.
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