Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
JAMES JOYCEIn the particular is contained the universal.
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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCE