The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Places remember events.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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