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Day Quotes by James Joyce
- 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…
- I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander…
- I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
- And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life,…
- But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation,…
- I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said…
- Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But…
- He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
- What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
- I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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