They lived and laughed and loved and left.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Places remember events.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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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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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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