James Joyce Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Fart Quotes

I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

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

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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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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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

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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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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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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'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

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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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We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

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Does nobody understand?

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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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