All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCEIn the particular is contained the universal.
More James Joyce Quotes
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Love loves to love love.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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