In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the huma...n subject. I hope it may prove successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the unive...rse would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very quee...r world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation an...d therefore continuous change and insecurity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a d...esk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »