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JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand...
BRIAN CELIO Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
VICTOR LAVALLE Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
REBECCA WEST For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
EVAN DANDO If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
FRANK DELANEY My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
JAMES JOYCE The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'l...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be un...
TOM STOPPARD I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'
JOHNNY DEPP Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself,...
BRENDAN BEHAN The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses]
VIRGINIA WOOLF You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initia...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of Jam...
SINCLAIR LEWIS I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get...
SID WADDELL The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but a...
KAREN DECROW Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, n...
JAMES JOYCE James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great ...
BOB DYLAN James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to l...
SAMUEL BECKETT I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woo...
FELICITY JONES No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
DONALD FOSTER No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
WOODROW T. WILSON No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
DON FOSTER After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore ...
SOPHIA LOREN It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrass...
AYN RAND After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to expl...
SOPHIA LOREN Despite the growing selection of games on the operators' portals, consumers still are not finding ga...
PAUL GOODE I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... I...
FRANK MCCOURT The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
THOMAS COLE How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.
THOMAS COLE I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice....
FRANK MCCOURT accepted his idea that the audience for a quality novel might not be large enough to support the aut...
JANE SMILEY I think people are used to channels. They're not used to portals.
LARRY FISCHER I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to ma...
MATT DILLON Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portal...
SHERRY K. WHITE As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes...
JAMES PATTERSON I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
JOHN IRVING The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss...
PATRICK KAVANAGH It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a lo...
KRISTIN CAVALLARI The delights of self-discovery are always available.
GAIL SHEEHY George Orwell, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection l...
BOB YOUNG There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.
NICOLA YOON Don’t keep running the race of life with the same heavy load of mistakes and indecisiveness! You m...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.
DR JOYCE BROTHERS Not for the first time, Joyce lamented the lack of irony in conversations in Asia.
NURY VITTACHI All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent t...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER For twenty-seven years I was told and believed it to be true, that if you really liked someone, you'...
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to...
KRISTIN HANNAH The basis for contents on the Internet is shifting from text to video and Korean portals are adaptin...
WAYNE LEE Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
EDWARD DE BONO Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. ...
WILHELM REICH Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistak...
KEN FOLLETT There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes peopl...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up.
Sirius was loungin...
J.K. ROWLING Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I'm confident to say - he who never made a...
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle's to be. Northmen's thing made southfolk's place but howmulty plurato...
JAMES JOYCE People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
JANE WIEDLIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... St. Joyce has replaced St. Patrick in the new, post-Catholic Ireland,
FINTAN O'TOOLE Don’t be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth.
ABHIJIT NASKAR The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve...
ANDREW SOLOMON The greatest discovery is self-discovery.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Joyce Chiles made this a real investigation with real consequences.
ALVIN SYKES We call them political portals, and they exist as hubs of information that deal with all the candida...
ANDREW BRANDT Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your porta...
LISA CYPERS KAMEN All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weakness...
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER Mistakes are the foundation of unintentional discoveries.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
WILLIAM JORDAN Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery ...
JULIAN BARNES The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star
ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN Mistakes aren’t mistakes; they are lessons!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best ...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best ...
JAMES A. FROUDE The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a st...
JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN The James Bond movies are based off of the first few years of Chuck Norri's childhood.
FVZZBALL Few sites have garnered the kind of trust and loyalty that brands like Coca-Cola have. Portals that ...
BARRY PARR The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reig...
PHILIP GUEDALLA I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling...
GEORGE A. MOORE There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
PAUL ELDRIDGE Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
CASSANDRA CLARE 'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake
JAMES JOYCE In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulys...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY We are not the sum of our mistakes.
SHELLY KAY WALDE The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its wo...
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JAMES JOYCE A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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JAMES JOYCE Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ...
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JAMES JOYCE Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.
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JAMES JOYCE Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.
JAMES JOYCE Every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.
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JAMES JOYCE When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
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adventures, I reflected, do not happen t...
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JAMES JOYCE My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
JAMES JOYCE no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns
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JAMES JOYCE (BUSINESSMAN) It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.
JAMES JOYCE (CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSIONER) It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like...
JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can...
JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if...
JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity.
JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo...
JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped...
JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han...
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