Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously