There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
JAMES JOYCEYour mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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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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