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.
JAMES JOYCEWhy is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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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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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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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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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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