History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEI’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 JOYCEThere is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
JAMES JOYCEWe are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEGod made food; the devil the cooks.
JAMES JOYCEBetter pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCEThe object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEAll fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCEMy puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
JAMES JOYCEWe are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
JAMES JOYCEWhatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCEYou can still die when the sun is shining.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCEWhy is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
JAMES JOYCEYour battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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