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More Quotes by James Joyce
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
Shut your eyes and see.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
