Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
JAMES JOYCEIt is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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