James Joyce Quotes
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish writer and poet.
(1882 - 1941)
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
[Error]
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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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.
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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.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
[America]
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Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
[Life]
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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.
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
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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.
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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.
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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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.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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