They lived and laughed and loved and left.
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Let my country die for me.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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