Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCEI 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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