James Joyce Quotes, Cake Quotes

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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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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I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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Places remember events.

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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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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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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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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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Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

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Does nobody understand?

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

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Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

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