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James Joyce
Irish
Novelist
About the author
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,
Irish
Novelist
#God
#Creation
#Artist
#Existence
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Public
#Reason
#Writing
#Reading
#English
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Nations
#Ego
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Sense
#Poetry
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Youth
#Satan
#Romantic
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Balance
#Shakespeare
#Hunting
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Men
#Actions
#Thoughts
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Time
#Pen
#Quiet
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Life
#Reading
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Now
#Men
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Being
#Church
#Philosophy
#Heresy
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Home
Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Words
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Will
#Heart
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Ireland
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Forget
#Woman
#Heaven
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Obvious
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Love
#World
#Mother
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#World
#Age
#Passion
#Glory
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Mistakes
#Man
#Genius
#Discovery
#Errors
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Man
#Discovery
#Errors
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Love
#Man
#Woman
#Friendship
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Will
#Heart
#Eyes
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Soul
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#America
#Columbus
#Posterity
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#World
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Mistakes
#Discovery
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Words
#Fear
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Will
#Mother
#Age
#Name
#Legal
#Father
#Fiction
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Will
#Immortality
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#First
#Ireland
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Old
#Ireland
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Art
#Pleasure
#Schools
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Men
#Intellect
#Emotion
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#Day
#Today
#Future
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce,
Irish
Novelist
#People
#Living
#Nation