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.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s many a true word spoken in jest.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shut your eyes and see.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Let my country die for me.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Places remember events.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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