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--Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
MI said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not t ...
James Joyce
Protestantism | Catholicism
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--Do you know what Ireland is? asked Stephen with cold violence. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce
Ireland and the Irish
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MUpon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato. MWhich of the two, Stephen asked, would have ban ...
James Joyce
Aristotle | Plato | censorship
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Where there is a reconciliation, Stephen said, there must have been first a sundering.
James Joyce
exile | reconciliation
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
history
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MWhat is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through ...
James Joyce
ghosts | Shakespeare, William
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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle youn ...
Abraham Lincoln
ambition | autobiography
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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, ...
Abraham Lincoln
ambition
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That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge [Senator Stephen] Do ...
Abraham Lincoln
slavery
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Anna: I'm getting married.
Stephen: Oh. Who to?
Anna: William.
Stephen: Ah. Have you told him?
Harold Pinter
marriage
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