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

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Mothers
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. – James Joyce

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Art
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. – James Joyce

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Age
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Does age poison us, or do we poison age? – Terri Guillemets

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain, letter to Joe Goodman, April 1891

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a childrens party taken over by the elders. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I think you cant really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether its New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You cant escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. – Jack White

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If you cant sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. Its the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. – Dale Carnegie

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. – Michel de Montaigne

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