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More Quotes by James Joyce
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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.
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
