I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
JAMES JOYCEWhat’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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