God made food; the devil the cooks.
JAMES JOYCEOne great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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