A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
James Joyce
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James Joyce
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
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
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.
James Joyce
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
James Joyce
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1882-02-02
Year of Death:
1941
Nationality:
Irish |
