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 JOYCEGod made food; the devil the cooks.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Love loves to love love.
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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, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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.
JAMES JOYCE






