Great man Quote by Rebecca West Download Open image “Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.” — Rebecca West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great man James Joyce Joyce Taste
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with a wonderful… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by the sense… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.” — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world... — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
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