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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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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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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Too excited to be genuinely happy

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All human history moves towards one great goal

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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

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It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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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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