There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
JAMES JOYCECivilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
More James Joyce Quotes
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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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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Places remember events.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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