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James Joyce Quotes
- Name:
- James Joyce
- Type:
- Novelist
- Nationality:
- Irish
- Birth day:
- February 2
- Birth year:
- 1882
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. James Joyce
- 2
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce
- 3
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
- 4
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce
- 5
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce
- 6
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce
- 7
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. James Joyce
- 8
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. James Joyce
- 9
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. James Joyce
- 10
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
- 11
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. James Joyce
- 12
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. James Joyce
- 13
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
- 14
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. James Joyce
- 15
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
- 16
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. James Joyce
- 17
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. James Joyce
- 18
Nations have their ego, just like individuals. James Joyce
- 19
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
- 20
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. James Joyce
- 21
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. James Joyce
- 22
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. James Joyce
- 23
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
- 24
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
- 25
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. James Joyce
- 26
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. James Joyce
- 27
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. James Joyce
- 28
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. James Joyce
- 29
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
- 30
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. James Joyce
- 31
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce