There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
JAMES JOYCEHis 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Love loves to love love.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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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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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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