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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

James Joyce

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.
JAMES JOYCE

Death Life Philosophy True
There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Friendship Old
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Civilization Creation
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes Heart Himself Life Past Story
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Emotion One Liner Sentimental
Thought is the thought of thought.
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Deep One Liner Thinking
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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Difficult Men Religion Woman
Shut your eyes and see.
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Eyes One Liner See
What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Ourselves Writing
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Forever Generosity
Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Book Life Reading
God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Devil Food God Human
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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Eyes Heart Love Mad
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Heart Love Romantic
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCE

Flower People
In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCE

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