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 JOYCEHis heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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’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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Places remember events.
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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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