Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCEYour mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
More James Joyce Quotes
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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