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
Over, Immortality, Meant, Centuries
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, Behind, Like, Remains
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
- James Joyce
Mind, Her, Through, Polished
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
- James Joyce
Her, Old, Eats, Ireland
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
- James Joyce
New, She, European, Ireland
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Intelligence, Genius, His, Errors
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
- James Joyce
Some, Other, Pass, Fade
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
- James Joyce
Art, Pleasure, Schools, Irresponsibility
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
- James Joyce
Future, Some, Established, Establish
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
- James Joyce
Ireland, Stiff, Sober
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
- James Joyce
Think, Escaping, Longest, Way Home
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
- James Joyce
Ink, No Time, Inclination, Table
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
- James Joyce
Church, Human Being, Which, Abhorrent
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
- James Joyce
Behind, Material, Were, Battles
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
- James Joyce
Poetry, Always, Most, Artifice
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
- James Joyce
Love, Family, Mother, Love Is
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
- James Joyce
Food, Meat, Bad, Corpse
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
- James Joyce
Women, Curves, Intellect, Lines
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
- James Joyce
Art, Symbol, Servant, Cracked
God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
- James Joyce
Spoke, Voices, Would, Hear
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
- James Joyce
Balance, Lost, Minds, Shakespeare
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Failure, Mistakes, Discovery, Portals
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
Think, Will, I Think, Coming Of Age
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
- James Joyce
Woman, Forget, Suffers, Heaven
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
- James Joyce
Funny, Discover, Last, Posterity
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
- James Joyce
Reason, Committed, Ingenious, Torture
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
- James Joyce
Soul, My Soul, Mouth, Teeth
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
- James Joyce
Die, Will, Dublin, Written
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
- James Joyce
Nations, Like, Individuals, Ego
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
- James Joyce
Reading, Works, Reader, Devote
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
- James Joyce
Romantic, Satan, Really, Jesus
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- James Joyce
Men, Thoughts, Brainy, Actions
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
- James Joyce
World, Found, His, Actual
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
- James Joyce
Unhappy, Big, Which, Words
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
- James Joyce
Patriotism, Nation, Same, Living
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
- James Joyce
Men, Only, Get, Now
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