"You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it."

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Source : "Overlong, overrated and unmoving: Roddy Doyle's verdict on James Joyce's Ulysses" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

Roddy Doyle

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“A beautiful woman can make herself look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”
“Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.”
“It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.”
“From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.”
“The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.”
“But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.”
“Never love that which you cannot keep.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.270, Macmillan
“I've endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye.”

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