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Quotes by James Joyce

Born: 2nd February 1882, Died: 13th January 1941
James Joyce was an Irish novelist.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery. Read Summary

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. Read Summary

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. Read Summary

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. Read Summary

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. Read Summary

Nations have their ego, just like individuals. Read Summary

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. Read Summary

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. Read Summary

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. Read Summary

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. Read Summary

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. Read Summary

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. Read Summary

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear. Read Summary

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

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. Read Summary

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. Read Summary

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. Read Summary

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. Read Summary

A nation is the same people living in the same place. Read Summary

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. Read Summary