Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Quotes by James Joyce
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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.
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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