Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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I’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.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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