James Joyce Quotes

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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce
Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess.

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We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.

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A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

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You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

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Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

James Joyce
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.

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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

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Be a warm day I fancy. Specially in these black clothes feel it more. Black conducts, reflects (refracts is it?) the heat.

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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

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Humme the Cheapner, Esc, overseen as we thought him, yet worthy of the naym, came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial fermament one tide on another

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water…Begob, ma'am, says Mrs Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.

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O, you were excruciated, in honour bound to the cross of your own cruelfiction!

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

James Joyce
Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail.

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Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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You have become of twosome twiminds forenenst gods, hidden and discovered, nay, condemned fool, anarch, egoarch, hiresiarch, you have reared your disunited kingdom on the vacuum of your own most intensely doubtful soul.

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Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with breadcrumbs, fried hencod's roe. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of scented urine.

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Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.

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I am working out a quantum theory about it for it is really most tantalizing state of affairs.

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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

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