Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.George Orwell
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
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