There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
JAMES JOYCEMy puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
More James Joyce Quotes
-
-
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCE -
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
JAMES JOYCE -
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCE -
God made food; the devil the cooks.
JAMES JOYCE -
And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCE -
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE -
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCE -
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
JAMES JOYCE -
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
JAMES JOYCE -
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
JAMES JOYCE -
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE -
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCE -
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCE -
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
JAMES JOYCE -
What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
JAMES JOYCE