James Joyce Quotes, Inspiration Quotes

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

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There's no friends like the old friends.

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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

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Wipe your glosses with what you know.

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Life is the great teacher.

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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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Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!

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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

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I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

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Have read little and understood less.

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In the particular is contained the universal.

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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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God made food; the devil the cooks.

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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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