James Joyce quotes

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His works, including "Ulysses" and "Dubliners," transformed modern literature with innovative narrative techniques. He is remembered for his experimental style and profound impact on storytelling. Here are 216 of his quotes:

Shut your eyes and see. (James Joyce)
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. View quote
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When I die Dublin will be written on my heart. View quote
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Love loves to love love. View quote
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. View quote
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. View quote
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. View quote
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Thought is the thought of thought. View quote
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. View quote
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. View quote
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. (James Joyce)
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. View quote
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God made food; the devil the cooks. View quote
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. View quote
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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. View quote
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. View quote
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. View quote
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. View quote
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul. View quote
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. View quote
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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)
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. View quote
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. View quote
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Life is too short to read a bad book. View quote
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. View quote
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James Joyce

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Occupation: Irish Novelist
Born: February 2, 1882
Died: January 13, 1941
Quotes count: 216
Wikipedia: James Joyce

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