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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce
Inspirational, Life, Running
James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce
Beautiful, Running, Wire
James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.17, 谷月社

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

James Joyce
Running, Names, Finnegans Wake
James Joyce (2016). “Finnegans Wake”, p.91, James Joyce

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

James Joyce
Running, Home, Heart
James Joyce (1967). “Dubliners”, p.106, Lulu.com

...rapid motion through space elates one.

James Joyce
Running, Space, Rapids
James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce
Running, Confused, Wire
James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners”, p.22, Booklassic

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.

James Joyce
Daughter, Running, Book
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1587, e-artnow

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