Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCEAll fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
More James Joyce Quotes
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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