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.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s many a true word spoken in jest.
More James Joyce Quotes
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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