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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: Irish Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: February 2, 1882 Date of Death: January 13, 1941 Nationality: Irish Find on Amazon: James Joyce Related Authors: Laurence Sterne Elizabeth Bowen Robert Graves Maria Edgeworth Joyce Cary Brian Moore George A. Moore |
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce A man's errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce A nation is the same people living in the same place. James Joyce 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 Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. James Joyce I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. James Joyce I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. 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 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 If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. James Joyce Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. James Joyce Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. James Joyce Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce 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 Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. James Joyce Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. James Joyce My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. James Joyce Nations have their ego, just like individuals. James Joyce No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. 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 Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. James Joyce The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. James Joyce The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. James Joyce 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 The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. James Joyce The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. James Joyce There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. James Joyce Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. James Joyce 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 When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. 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. James Joyce You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. James Joyce Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce |
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