Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCEJesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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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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Places remember events.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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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