Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCEMen are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Let my country die for me.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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