A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEJesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Love loves to love love.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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