The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCEThere is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
More James Joyce Quotes
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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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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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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