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 JOYCEOne great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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