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Quotes By James Joyce

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

James Joyce
Forget Violence Woman

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

James Joyce
ArtIrish Servant

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

James Joyce
Eats Ireland Sow

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

James Joyce
European Ireland

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

James Joyce
Ego Nations

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
GodArtist Within

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce
Cheese Gone Meat

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

James Joyce
LoveMother Whatever

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce
RomanticJesus Moment

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

James Joyce
IntelligenceMistakes

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce
Cold Stones Words

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

James Joyce
LifeReading Works

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

James Joyce
BestBrainyMen

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

James Joyce
Found Possible Within

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

James Joyce
Ireland Sober Stiff
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