Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCESentimentality is unearned emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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