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.
JAMES JOYCEGod made food; the devil the cooks.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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