Quote by James Joyce
I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers n

I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. – James Joyce

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Think youre escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. – James Joyce

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – James Joyce

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Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. – John M. Wagner (“Maxine”)

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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Love has no age, no limit and no death. – John Galsworthy

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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isnt so extraordinary, I dont know why people go on about it so much. – Francesca Annis

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