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.
JAMES JOYCEAll fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
More James Joyce Quotes
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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