What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
JAMES JOYCEThink you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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