My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
James Joyce
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
James Joyce
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
James Joyce
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
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
James Joyce
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce
Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
James Joyce
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
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce
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