“Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.”
– James Joyce
“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.”
– James Joyce
“Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.”
– James Joyce
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
– James Joyce
“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.”
– James Joyce
“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 you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
– 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
“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
– James Joyce
“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.”
– James Joyce
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
– James Joyce
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
– James Joyce
“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
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
– James Joyce