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Words Quotes by James Joyce
- 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…
- The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all,…
- My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
- But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
- I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
- Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
- 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…
- I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of…
- He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
- The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas.…
- I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
- My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires
- Dubliner seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words asLondoner and Parisian both of…
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