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More Quotes by James Joyce
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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
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.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
Shut your eyes and see.
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 established yesterday or some previous day.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
