Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
JAMES JOYCEWhite pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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