No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Quote by James Joyce

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to...

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to...

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at...

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at...

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in...

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in...

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is...

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is...

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or...

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or...

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

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

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous...

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous...

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole...

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole...

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and...

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and...

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

People Trample Over Flowers, Yet Only To Embrace A Cactus.

People Trample Over Flowers, Yet Only To Embrace A Cactus.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer...

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer...

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!