Think youre escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. – James Joyce
I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. – James Joyce
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. – 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 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
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. – James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. – James Joyce
