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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. you could do nothing in dublin.

-James Joyce

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James Joyce

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. you could do nothing in dublin.

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Come away with in the night come away with me and i will sing you a song come away with me on a bus come away where they can't tempt us with there lies i want to walk with you on a cloudy day in fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high so won't you try to come come away with me and we'll kiss on a mountain top come away with me and i'll never stop loving you and i want to wake up with the rain falling on a tin roof while i'm safe there in your arms so all i ask is for you to come away with me in the night come away with me.

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