Famous Quotes by James Joyce

Below are famous quotes by James Joyce - Irish author (1882 - 1941).

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

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