Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
JAMES JOYCEWhatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
More James Joyce Quotes
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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