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Tenors get women by the score.

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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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We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
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