“It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I was able to correct the first half of Ulysses for the third edition and to read the first two volumes recommendés… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I… — David Baker Copy Share Image
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
“for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Mr. Beaumaris, who had picked Ulysses up, paid no heed to all these attempts at self-justification, but addressed himself to his adorer.… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it?… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The Housefly I’m just a little pesky thing, Flying to eke out a living. So round and round and round I hiss,… — David B. Lentz Copy Share Image
After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind.… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
“To pass the time, I made valiant strides in my effort to read Ulysses, but feared I was losing the war. A… — B. Justin Shier Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different?… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and… — Joachim du Bellay Copy Share Image
Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It [Joyce's "Ulysses"] plays on the reader's sympathies to his own undoing unless sleep kindly intervenes and puts a stop to this… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man… — Stephen J. Joyce Copy Share Image
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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![“It [Joyce's "Ulysses"] plays on the reader's sympathies to his own undoing unless sleep kindly intervenes and puts a stop to this drain of energy. Arrived at page 135, after making several heroic efforts to get at the book, to "do it justice", as the phrase goes, I fell at last into profound…” quote by C.G. Jung](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/094/c-g-jung-2163_books_it-joyce-s-ulysses-plays-on-the-reader-s_2131160.jpg)
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