Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
JAMES JOYCEWe are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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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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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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