Fall if you will, but rise you must.
JAMES JOYCEMy puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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