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Dubliners

by James Joyce

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A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

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Clare’s Quotes

“The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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“I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in the deserted afternoon I could say to myself 'I am a woman who drinks.”
― Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater

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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

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“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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“I was worrying about the milk, about my children falling in love, about the creatures who crawled through the dark towards us, their ancestors, their loving assassins, breathing 'Why?' like a cold wind.”
― Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater

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