James Joyce quote about words from Dubliners - there is no word tender enough to be your name
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there is no word tender enough to be your name
 James Joyce, Dubliners (1914). copy citation

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Author James Joyce
Source Dubliners
Topic words tenderness
Date 1914
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2814-h/2814-h.htm

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“Their children, his writing, her household cares had not quenched all their souls' tender fire. In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: "Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"
Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past. He longed to be alone with her. When the others had gone away, when he and she were in the room in the hotel, then they would be alone together.” source

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