Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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