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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

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Words are all we have.

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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Playwright

Born: April 13th, 1906

Died: December 22nd, 1989

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