James Joyce Quotes, Men Quotes, Race Quotes

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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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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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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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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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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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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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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I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

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