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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

James Joyce

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Memories Moments Secret Stars
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Artist Beautiful Creation
Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Absence One Liner Philosophy Presence
Love loves to love love.
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Funny Life Love One Liner
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Beautiful Cry Music Quiet Word
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall Light Music
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Family Love Mom World
There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Friendship Old
God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Devil Food God Human
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Cold Enough Yourself
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Generosity Inspirational
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Eyes Heart Himself Life Past Story
You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Death Shine Sun Yourself
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Glasses Wipe Yourself

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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