People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
JAMES JOYCETo live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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