An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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