White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Places remember events.
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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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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Love loves to love love.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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