Wipe your glasses with what you know.
JAMES JOYCEIn the particular is contained the universal.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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Love loves to love love.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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