White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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