Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Quote by James Joyce

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

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

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what...

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what...

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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...

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.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a...

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a...

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

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

'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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...

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought...

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought...

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

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

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

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...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of...

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of...

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any...

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any...