He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEGod made food; the devil the cooks.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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