Quotes by James Joyce

About James Joyce:

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.
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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

James Joyce

Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the d...

James Joyce

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

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

James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

James Joyce

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

James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

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

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

James Joyce

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

James Joyce

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

James Joyce

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

James Joyce

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and y...

James Joyce

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

James Joyce

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce

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

James Joyce

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Joyce

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

James Joyce

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

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

James Joyce

Author Bio

  • NameJames Joyce
  • DescriptionIrish novelist and poet
  • AliasesDzho?s, Dzhe?ms Avgustin Aloizi?,
  • BornFebruary 2, 1882
  • DiedJanuary 13, 1941
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Playwright; Novelist