Joyce Quotes

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Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue. — Bill Milkowski
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible… — Allan Bloom
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in… — James A. Baldwin
Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the… — Joyce Banda
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. — Samuel Beckett
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. — Nadine Gordimer
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard.… — Matt Dillon
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long… — Mohsin Hamid
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching… — Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. — George Orwell
No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in… — Jane Seymour
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. — Tom Stoppard
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. — Rebecca West
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. — Robert Anton Wilson
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,… — James Joyce
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
I donâ€™t ask writers about their work habits. I really donâ€™t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time… — Philip Roth
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr.… — Joyce Brothers

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