All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCEHistory, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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