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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Mistakes, Discovery, Portals

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

Age, Passion, Full

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

Women, Men, Emotion

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce

Inspired, Won, Behind

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

Human, Philosophy, Church

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce

Future, Today, Tomorrow

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

Writing, Why, Reason

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce

Busy, Put, Keep

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James Joyce

Heart, Him, Eyes

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Discovery, Errors, Portals

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Mistakes, Makes, Genius

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce

America, Everyone, Last

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce

Home, Yourself, Run

A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce

Living, Same, Place

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
James Joyce

Love, Friendship, Woman

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
James Joyce

Men, Best, Thoughts

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce

Love, Mother, Else

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
James Joyce

Art, Cannot, Pleasure

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce

Poetry, Sense, Against

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce

God, Artist, Within

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce

Fear, Words, Big

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

Soul, Full, Mouth

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce

Time, Quiet, Room

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

Age, Legal, Mother

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: February 2, 1882

Died: January 13, 1941

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