James Joyce Quotes, Distance Quotes

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

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And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

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

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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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Shut your eyes and see.

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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