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James Joyce

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What we know about James Joyce comes primarily from their words — and those words are worth your time. With equal ease, James Joyce moved between Age and Women, finding connections others missed. Discover 14 of James Joyce's most memorable quotes, ranging across Age, Women, Saintpatricksday, Romantic, and Poetry. As James Joyce put it: "Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”

— James Joyce

Poetry

All Quotes by James Joyce

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”

— James Joyce

Poetry

“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

Friendship

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

— James Joyce

Best

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

— James Joyce

Art

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

— James Joyce

Romantic

“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”

— James Joyce

Men

“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.”

— James Joyce

Fear

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

— James Joyce

Age

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

— James Joyce

Home

“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

Age

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”

— James Joyce

Future