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

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...

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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...

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy...

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy...

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 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 sober is Ireland stiff.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than...

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than...

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as...

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as...

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...

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he...

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he...

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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

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

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is...

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is...

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom....

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom....

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have...

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

In every mistake, there is a message. Some people miss the message because they're too...

In every mistake, there is a message. Some people miss the message because they're too...