James Joyce Quotes

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• What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That…
• Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun…
• When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
• A nation is the same people living in the same place.
• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
• Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
• Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
• White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
• ...rapid motion through space elates one.
• Does nobody understand?
• By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.…
• Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid…
• I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many…
• 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.
• Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived…
• The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness.
• He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth.…
• Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered…
• When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail…
• For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all…

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