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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Let my country die for me.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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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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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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