Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
JAMES JOYCELife is too short to read a bad book.
More James Joyce Quotes
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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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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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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A man’s errors are his 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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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