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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

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Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

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The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

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The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: December 21st, 1892

Died: March 15th, 1983

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