James Joyce

James Joyce

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
James Joyce
"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
James Joyce
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
James Joyce
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
James Joyce
"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment."
James Joyce
"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."
James Joyce
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
James Joyce
"A nation is the same people living in the same place."
James Joyce
"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."
James Joyce
"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."
James Joyce
"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."
James Joyce
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
James Joyce
"A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce
"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."
James Joyce
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
James Joyce
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
James Joyce
"To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic."
James Joyce
"The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past."
James Joyce
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