What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
JAMES JOYCEFall if you will, but rise you must.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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