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“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic,…

— John Munro Woolsey

“I was able to correct the first half of Ulysses for the third edition and to read the first two volumes recommendés by Mr…

— James Joyce

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where…

— E. M. Forster

“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[Ulysses] appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a speciality of the literature of the latrine… I have no…

— Aramis

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

— Susan Sontag

“Happy the man who can long roaming reap, Like old Ulysses when he shaped his course Homeward at last toward the native source, Seasoned…

— May Sarton

“There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disk rested…

— Willa Cather

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through…

— Mortimer Collins

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed, no man…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and…

— Tom Stoppard