James Joyce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total … rock star from Mars, and people can't figure me out; they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain. (The Today Show)
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Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.
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I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. (4.14-15)
