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More Quotes by James Joyce
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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.
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.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
