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"33 James Joyce Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 February 1882. Died: 13 January 1941 | Novelist | Writer | Poet | Teacher | Critic |

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

Escaping Home Longest Round
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Ambition Full Mouth My Soul
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Am Day Establish Established
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Discovery Mistakes Portals Are
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Discovery Errors Genius His
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Art Cannot Irresponsibility Part
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Actions Best Men Thoughts
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Age Better Boldly Fade
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Forget Heaven Kingdom Like
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Abhorrent Being Church Heresy
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America Because Christopher Columbus
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Against Always Apparently Artifice
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Inclination Ink No Time Pen
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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.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Die Dublin Heart Will
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Living Nation People Place
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Curves Emotion Governed Intellect
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Cold Her Mind Polished
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Balance Ground Happy Hunting
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Else Love Love Is Mother
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Demand Devote He His
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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.

Age Allowed Child Coming
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Get Men Now Only
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Become European First Ireland
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Actual Found He His
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Committed English Ever Explains
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Eats Her Ireland Old
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Ego Individuals Just Like
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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.

Arguing Busy Centuries Immortality
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Big Fear Make Those
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Art Cracked Irish Servant
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

God Hear Many Spoke
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James Joyce Quotes & Sayings