James Joyce Quotes and its meanings

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What are the top most famous quotes by James Joyce?

Here are the top most famous quotes by James Joyce.

• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
• 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.
• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
• I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
• 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.
• I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
• Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.