James Joyce

James Joyce

• Born on the February 2nd 1882
• Published "Portrait of an artist" in 1916 and caught the attention of Ezra Pound
• Died 1941

James Joyce's Quotes

• "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
• Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
• Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
• History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
• I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
• Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. "