God made food; the devil the cooks.
JAMES JOYCELet my country die for me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Places remember events.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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