James Joyce Quotes, Mother Quotes, Water Quotes

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

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Tenors get women by the score.

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

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As you are now so once were we.

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As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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