[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily b…

James Joyce
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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. ✨ James Joyce (2016). Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author, p.184, e-artnow
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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. ✨ James Joyce (2016). Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author, p.184, e-artnow

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