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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
- James Joyce
#Home
#Longest
#Round
#Way
#Yourself
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
- James Joyce
#Balance
#Ground
#Happy
#Hunting
#Lost
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
- James Joyce
#America
#Everyone
#Funny
#Honored
#Last
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
- James Joyce
#Age
#Father
#Legal
#Mother
#Will
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
- James Joyce
#Against
#Always
#Even
#Fantastic
#Poetry
#Revolt
#Sense
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
- James Joyce
#Family
#Love Is
#Love
#Mother
#World
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
- James Joyce
#Bad
#Cheese
#Food
#Meat
#Milk
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
- James Joyce
#Get
#Men
#Now
#Only
#Out
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
- James Joyce
#Curves
#Intellect
#Lines
#Men
#Women
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
- James Joyce
#Die
#Dublin
#Heart
#Will
#Written
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
- James Joyce
#Eats
#Her
#Ireland
#Old
#Sow
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
- James Joyce
#Artist
#Beyond
#Creation
#Existence
#God
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
- James Joyce
#Day
#Future
#I Am
#Today
#Tomorrow
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
- James Joyce
#Age
#Better
#Glory
#Passion
#World
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.
- James Joyce
#Busy
#Immortality
#Keep
#Way
#Will
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
- James Joyce
#Being
#Church
#Human Being
#Human
#Which
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- James Joyce
#Actions
#Best
#Brainy
#Men
#Thoughts
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
- James Joyce
#Living
#Patriotism
#People
#Place
#Same
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
#Genius
#His
#Intelligence
#Man
#Mistakes
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
#Discovery
#Failure
#Mistakes
#Portals
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