More Quotes by James Joyce
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
