Wipe your glasses with what you know.
JAMES JOYCEThink you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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