Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Places remember events.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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