I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned 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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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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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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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