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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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And 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.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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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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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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