My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
JAMES JOYCEPeople could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Let my country die for me.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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