James Joyce Quotes

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

James Joyce

Past, Flow, Eternal

Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. "James Joyce: The Critical Heritage". Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

James Joyce

Giving, Mind, Giving Back

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Fall if you will, but rise you must.

James Joyce

Fall, Ifs

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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

James Joyce

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce

Absence, Form, Highest

James Joyce (1965). “The dead”

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Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Eye, Zeus, Insight

James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.67, eBookIt.com

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

James Joyce

Flower, People, Cactus

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

James Joyce

Inspirational, Work, Passion

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

James Joyce

Love, Life, Positive Thinking

James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics

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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

James Joyce

Humanity, Age, Quality

"Dubliners".

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

James Joyce

Horse, Bulls, Horns

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Love loves to love love.

James Joyce

Love, Life, Funny Love

Ulysses (1922)

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

James Joyce

Lying, Asks

James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.268, Book House

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

James Joyce

Fall, Scotch, Glasses

"Best-loved Joyce".

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

James Joyce

Passion, Done, Opponents

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

James Joyce

Writing, Effort, Risk

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

James Joyce

Brother, Men, Wife

James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.217, First Avenue Editions

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

James Joyce

Teacher, Humble, Life Is

James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

James Joyce

Book, Life Is Too Short, Life Is

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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

James Joyce

Jesus, Men, Religion

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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

James Joyce

Fall, Triumph

James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

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You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

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Mistake, Long, Eternity

James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.191, Wordsworth Editions

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

Inspirational, Life, Running

James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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

James Joyce

Men, Curves, Lines

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Born: February 2, 1882
Died: January 13, 1941
Occupation: Novelist
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