The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James JoyceRead
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a plea for support and guidance from an experienced source.
In this quote, James Joyce invokes the image of an 'old father' as a metaphor for wisdom and experience, asking for steadfastness and continual support. It reflects a deep appreciation for the guidance that comes from older generations, suggesting that wisdom and reliability are crucial in navigating life's challenges.
In practice
In a speech about valuing elder wisdom in community discussions.
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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.
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.
Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact _x000D_ come to know anything.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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