Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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