People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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