Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
JAMES JOYCEPeople could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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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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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Let my country die for me.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Love loves to love love.
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