History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEAnd yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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