History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s no friends like the old friends.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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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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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCE