Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEBury 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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