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James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
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