I am proud to be an emotionalist.
JAMES JOYCEI am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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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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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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Let my country die for me.
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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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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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