Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCEYour battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Places remember events.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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