Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCEChristopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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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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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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