James Joyce Quotes, Differences Quotes, Literature Quotes

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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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level.

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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

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Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

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Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

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The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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