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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

James Joyce

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

James Joyce

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

James Joyce

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

James Joyce