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James Joyce Quotes

«Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.»
«I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms»
«Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.»
Author: James Joyce | Keywords: irresponsibility, schools
«Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.»
«He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?»
«The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works»
Author: James Joyce | About: Reading | Keywords: demand, devote, reader
«Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.»
«We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory.»
«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.»
«No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.»
Author: James Joyce | Keywords: inclination, ink, pen

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