History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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