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" If you accept your limitations you go beyond them. "
Brendan Behan
You
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" New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. "
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" Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. "
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" At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. "
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