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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Tenors get women by the score.

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In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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Life is the great teacher.

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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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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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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.

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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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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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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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