Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCEI care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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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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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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