There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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