And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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 could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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 woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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 fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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