Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
JAMES JOYCEThere is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
More James Joyce Quotes
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Jesus 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.
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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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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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