And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Let my country die for me.
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Love loves to love love.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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