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.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s many a true word spoken in jest.
More James Joyce Quotes
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Places remember events.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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