My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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