Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCEPeople could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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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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Places remember events.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Love loves to love love.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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