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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.
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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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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.
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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Deal with him, Hemingway!
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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.
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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
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