Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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