Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
JAMES JOYCEHe wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
More James Joyce Quotes
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Let my country die for me.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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