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James Joyce

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."

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Amber Hurdle

"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."

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Amber Hurdle

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

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Amber Hurdle

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

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Amber Hurdle

"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

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Amber Hurdle

"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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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."
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James Joyce
"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."
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James Joyce
"You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use- silence, exile, and cunning."
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James Joyce
"He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music."
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"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."
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James Joyce
"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."
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James Joyce
"He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him."
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James Joyce
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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James Joyce
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
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James Joyce
"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
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