Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCEAnd 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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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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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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