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.
JAMES JOYCEWe are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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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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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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