A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEAll fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
More James Joyce Quotes
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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