My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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 am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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Places remember events.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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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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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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