The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCEYou can still die when the sun is shining.
More James Joyce Quotes
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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