Irish - Novelist | February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
WomanViolenceYouHeavenForget
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.
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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