3 December 2020 James Joyce Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
3 December 2020 James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
3 December 2020 James Joyce Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
3 December 2020 James Joyce I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
3 December 2020 James Joyce Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
3 December 2020 James Joyce Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
3 December 2020 James Joyce Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
