Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEHe wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Places remember events.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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