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James Joyce quotes: King Solomon says in Proverbs that there is nothing new under the sun. King Solomon says in Proverbs that there is nothing new under the sun.
James Joyce quotes: When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
James Joyce quotes: How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys! How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys!
James Joyce quotes: A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes. A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.
James Joyce quotes: Wipe your glasses with what you know. Wipe your glasses with what you know.
James Joyce quotes: The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.
James Joyce quotes: The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed. The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
James Joyce quotes: Quotations every day of the year. Quotations every day of the year.
James Joyce quotes: Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder. Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder.
James Joyce quotes: The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
James Joyce quotes: Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce quotes: Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you everytelling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every
telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.
James Joyce quotes: It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.
James Joyce quotes: And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father. And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.
James Joyce quotes: 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. 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.
James Joyce quotes: The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works. The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.
James Joyce quotes: Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce quotes: Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path. Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.
James Joyce quotes: Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him? Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?
James Joyce quotes: In the particular is contained the universal. In the particular is contained the universal.
James Joyce quotes: Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.
James Joyce quotes: No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse. No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
James Joyce quotes: We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
James Joyce quotes: Were all important in god's eyes. Were all important in god's eyes.
James Joyce quotes: He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died. He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died.
James Joyce quotes: Here Comes Everybody. Here Comes Everybody.
James Joyce quotes: I think of you so often you have no idea. I think of you so often you have no idea.
James Joyce quotes: (...) and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...) (...) and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...)
James Joyce quotes: - I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod. - I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod.
James Joyce quotes: There was cold sunlight outside the window. There was cold sunlight outside the window.
James Joyce quotes: Date a girl who reads Date a girl who reads
James Joyce quotes: I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
James Joyce quotes: Absence, the highest form of presence. Absence, the highest form of presence.
James Joyce quotes: What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist? What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?
James Joyce quotes: Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut! Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut!
James Joyce quotes: Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O. Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
James Joyce quotes: Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
James Joyce quotes: What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own. What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.
James Joyce quotes: One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
James Joyce quotes: Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically. Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.
James Joyce quotes: Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all. Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.
James Joyce quotes: The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue... The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...
James Joyce quotes: She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband. She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.
James Joyce quotes: For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me. For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me.
James Joyce quotes: Phall if you but will, rise you must. Phall if you but will, rise you must.
James Joyce quotes: Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own. Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.
James Joyce quotes: Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
James Joyce quotes: We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land. We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land.
James Joyce quotes: Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides,
James Joyce quotes: Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going. Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.
James Joyce quotes: Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls. Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls.
James Joyce quotes: And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and by Jesus he near throttled him. And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and by Jesus he near throttled him.
James Joyce quotes: If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
James Joyce quotes: I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book. I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
James Joyce quotes: Skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his Skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his
James Joyce quotes: All fiction is autobiographical fantasy. All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
James Joyce quotes: A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her. A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.
James Joyce quotes: Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money. Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.
James Joyce quotes: A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out. A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
James Joyce quotes: Oh Ireland my first and only loveWhere Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! Oh Ireland my first and only love
Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
James Joyce quotes: Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it. Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
James Joyce quotes: Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce quotes: Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
James Joyce quotes: Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points. Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
James Joyce quotes: Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
James Joyce quotes: The world is before you The world is before you
James Joyce quotes: I'll tickle his catastrophe. I'll tickle his catastrophe.
James Joyce quotes: I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
James Joyce quotes: What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down. What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
James Joyce quotes: My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.
James Joyce quotes: I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy. I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce quotes: Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet? Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet?
James Joyce quotes: preacher's tone: preacher's tone:
James Joyce quotes: We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too. We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too.
James Joyce quotes: Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
James Joyce quotes: Will ye, ay or nay? Will ye, ay or nay?
James Joyce quotes: We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways. We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
James Joyce quotes: Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
James Joyce quotes: God made food; the devil the cooks. God made food; the devil the cooks.
James Joyce quotes: This race and this country and this life produced me, he said I shall express myself as I am. This race and this country and this life produced me, he said I shall express myself as I am.
James Joyce quotes: Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words. Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words.
James Joyce quotes: Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire? Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire?
James Joyce quotes: We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die:
James Joyce quotes: Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
James Joyce quotes: What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction? What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
James Joyce quotes: They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late. Ulysses They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late.
Ulysses
James Joyce quotes: There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
James Joyce quotes: He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.
James Joyce quotes: The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness.
James Joyce quotes: Mistakes are the portals of discovery. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce quotes: Too excited to be genuinely happy Too excited to be genuinely happy
James Joyce quotes: Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
James Joyce quotes: There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts. There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.
James Joyce quotes: It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only Godcould do that. It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God
could do that.
James Joyce quotes: What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? What was after the universe?
Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
James Joyce quotes: I am, a stride at a time I am, a stride at a time
James Joyce quotes: The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action. The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.
James Joyce quotes: No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination
James Joyce quotes: When I find a lady who is content with her own picture I will send a bouquet to the Pope When I find a lady who is content with her own picture I will send a bouquet to the Pope
James Joyce quotes: Hump for humbleness, dump for dirts. Hump for humbleness, dump for dirts.

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