James Joyce Quotes, Food Quotes, Squares Quotes

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

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Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.

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My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

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The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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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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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

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Tenors get women by the score.

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What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

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