People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
JAMES JOYCEShakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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