Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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Let my country die for me.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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 desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCE