Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
JAMES JOYCEAnd yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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