I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCEFall if you will, but rise you must.
More James Joyce Quotes
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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