“I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.”

—  James Joyce

Source: About his wife, Nora. Selected Letters of James Joyce. http://www.slate.com/id/2181165

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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