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.
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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