James Joyce
Quotations
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“Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.” -James Joyce
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“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.” -James Joyce
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“Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.” -James Joyce
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“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.” -James Joyce
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“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.” -James Joyce
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“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
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“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” -James Joyce
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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
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“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.” -James Joyce
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“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.” -James Joyce
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“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -James Joyce
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“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” -James Joyce
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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
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