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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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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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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.
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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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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
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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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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
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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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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
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