Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCEI’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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