An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
More James Joyce Quotes
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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