Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
JAMES JOYCEThey lived and laughed and loved and left.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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