More Quotes by James Joyce
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Shut your eyes and see.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
