Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCEThe heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Places remember events.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Let my country die for me.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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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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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Love loves to love love.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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