An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCEAll Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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