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Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by William M. Schutte

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Rishindra Chinta said: " "The relationship of the mookse to the moocow opens a wide field for conjecture." - J. I. M. Stewart ...more "

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Rishindra’s Quotes

“there is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

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“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who’s half a man,
Or the man who’s half a boy.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

tags: writing, writing-from-the-heart, writing-life

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“The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

tags: dreams, mind, unconscious

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