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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCE

Fantasy Fiction
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes Heart Love Mad
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCE

Flower People
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
JAMES JOYCE

Establishment Inspirational Passion Work
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE

Greatness Humble Life Teacher
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCE

Desire Love World
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
JAMES JOYCE

Hypocrite People
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
JAMES JOYCE

Fall Inspirational One Liner Rise
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
JAMES JOYCE

Funny
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE

Balance Happiness Hunt Lost Mind
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
JAMES JOYCE

Myself Space Time
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
JAMES JOYCE

Beautiful Life Simplicity
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Adventure Home Reality Reflection
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES JOYCE

Art Born History Pain Philosophy Vision
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCE

Age Glory Passion World
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCE

Escape Home Inspirational Life Run
There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
JAMES JOYCE

Truth Word
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
JAMES JOYCE

Heart Love Romantic
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCE

Humor Silence
Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCE

Book Life Reading
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCE

Emotion One Liner Sentimental
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 JOYCE

Death Life Philosophy True
All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
JAMES JOYCE

Funny Sad
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Forever Generosity
What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
JAMES JOYCE

Ourselves Writing
Thought is the thought of thought.
JAMES JOYCE

Deep One Liner Thinking

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