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James Joyce quotes

Irish Novelist February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941

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James Joyce quote: "Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the..."
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce
Jews are accused of ruining. Not a vestige of truth in it. (...) The priest spells poverty (...) It's in the dogma. Because if they didn't believe they'd go straight to heaven when they die they'd try to live better, at least so I think. (...) I want to see everyone, all creeds and classes having a comfortable tidysized income. I call that patriotism." (526) James Joyce
The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived. James Joyce
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Shut your eyes and see."
Shut your eyes and see. James Joyce
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Redheaded women buck like goats."
Redheaded women buck like goats. James Joyce
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him. James Joyce
Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels..."
When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who onc? James Joyce
They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late. Ulysses James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a..."
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. James Joyce
Beingless beings. Stop! Throb always without you and the throb always within. Your heart you sing of. I between them. Where? Between two roaring worlds where they swirl, I. Shatter them, one and both. But stun myself too in the blow. Shatter me you who can. Bawd and butcher, were the words. I say! Not yet awhile. A look around. James Joyce
A warm human plumpness settled down on his brain. His brain yielded. Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore. James Joyce
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal. James Joyce

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