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.
JAMES JOYCEThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Places remember events.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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