Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCEAbsence, the highest form of presence.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Let my country die for me.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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