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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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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. – James Joyce

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