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.
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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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