More Quotes by James Joyce
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
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
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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.
