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James Joyce
February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941
Nationality: Irish
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: Irish Novelist

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

   

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

   

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

   

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

   

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

   

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

   

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

   

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

   

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

   

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

   

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

   

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

   

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

   

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.

   

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

   

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

   

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

   

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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