The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCEMoments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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