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.
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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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 pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Love loves to love love.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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