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		AlexandrB 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists Many people who work as schoolteachers, grocery clerks, etc. at one point might have had ambition to be the next James Joyce.

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jl6 10 days ago [–]

Joyce did work as a schoolteacher. Maybe he would have written better books if he hadn’t had to do this.

lucketone 10 days ago | [–]

Equally possible that those books would have been worse.

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