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“Dubliner seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words asLondoner and Parisian both of which have been usedby writers as titles. From timeto time I see in publishers' lists announcements of books on Irish subjects, so that I think people might be willing to pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories.”

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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“Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody's body.”

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth. No life or youth stirred in him as it had stirred in them. He had known neither…

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy…

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“-Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position?”

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not…

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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