Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
JAMES JOYCELet my country die for me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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