[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; “Ulysses” by… — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered… — John Munro Woolsey Copy Share Image
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long… — William Saroyan 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
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
Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader.… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a… — Audrey Niffenegger 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
“Now left to man's ingratitude he lay, Unhoused, neglected in the public way; And where on heaps the rich manure was spread,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“But if this biography suggests a varied and sympathetic apprehension of the world, it was with a far darker palette that Céline… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people… — Roddy Doyle 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
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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