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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.
By James Joyce
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
By James Joyce
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
By James Joyce
Night, Night. Tellmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of hitherandthithering waters of the Night!
By James Joyce
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.
By James Joyce
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 mortality.
By James Joyce
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.
By James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
By James Joyce
By the age of 45, I knew I could no longer start a sentence with a mention of strudel. My fingers would want to do it but my mind just wouldn't react.
By James Joyce
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
By James Joyce
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
By James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
By James Joyce