The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate — Ovid Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
“Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One respect in which I'm very much my father's son is how I feel about Joyce. 'Ulysses' is very much about daily… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
“The worst book I’ve ever read is “Ulysses,” by Joyce, because like my undergraduate college degree, that’s nine and a half years… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“You can't just fly into the Great Coat, shoot your way into Bluewater, and take Kai and his father,' I told him.… — Cameron Stracher Copy Share Image
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread… — Homer Copy Share Image
“In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and… — C.G. Jung 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
“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
“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
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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