People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEI am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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