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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.


Rachel Joyce

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JOYCE BROTHERS Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted ...
JOYCE BROTHERS At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyon...
JOYCE MEYER I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of...
JAMES JOYCE Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of ge...
JOYCE MEYER Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no...
JOYCE MEYER I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to ...
JOYCE MEYER I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning...
JOYCE MEYER Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parentin...
JOYCE MEYER Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, mi...
JOYCE MEYER The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
JAMES JOYCE Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgme...
JOYCE MEYER My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the re...
JOYCE GIRAUD Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
JAMES JOYCE I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries argu...
JAMES JOYCE A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
JAMES JOYCE Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
JAMES JOYCE God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
JAMES JOYCE My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
JAMES JOYCE Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ...
JAMES JOYCE I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
JAMES JOYCE He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCE There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
JAMES JOYCE Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork,...
JAMES JOYCE When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
JAMES JOYCE Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither di...
JAMES JOYCE A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
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