James Joyce Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Fiction Quotes

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

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I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

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Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

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I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.

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Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

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Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

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I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track.

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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

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Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

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