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Quotations by author » James Joyce
Irish novelist, 1882-1941
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I regard him as the whitest man I know. He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive property at Agendath Netaim in faraway Asia Minor, slides of which will now be shown.
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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.
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I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms
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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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Ireland is the sow that eats her own farrow
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.
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It's designed to capture viruses from your entire blood system. It's designed to capture viruses before cells and organs can be infected.
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible beacuse there must be sexual intercourse.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire
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Night, Night. Tellmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of hitherandthithering waters of the Night!
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No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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No, it did lots of other things too.
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
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