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James Joyce [1882-1941] Irish

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems)

Agnosticism, Difficult, Expressionism, Modernism, Nonsense

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.

Age, Art, Best, Brainy, Failure, Family, Fear, Funny, Future, Home, Intelligence, Legal, Men, Patriotism, Poetry, Romantic, Time, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.	Failure	101
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.	Intelligence	102
I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.		103
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.		104
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.		105
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.	Best, Brainy, Men	106
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.	Age	107
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.	Funny	108
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.	Poetry	109
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.	Time	110
A nation is the same people living in the same place.	Patriotism	111
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.		112
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.	Art	113
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.	Art	114
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.	Future	115
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.		116
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.	Home	117
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.	Age, Legal	118
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.		119
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.	Romantic	120
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.		121
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.		122
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.		123
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.	Fear	124
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.		125
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.	Women	126
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.		201
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.		202
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.		203
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.		204
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.		205
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.		206
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.	Family	207
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.		208
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.		209
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.		210

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