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James Joyce quotes

Irish Novelist February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941

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He called me a jew, and in a heated fashion, offensively. So I, without deviating from plain facts in the least, told him his God, I mean Christ, was a jew too, and all his family, like me, though in reality I'm not. That was one for him. A soft answer turns away wrath. He hadn't a word to say for himself as everyone saw. Am I not right? James Joyce
His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth. James Joyce
Yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. James Joyce
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his,..."
He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have..."
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. James Joyce
Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.-Stephen Dedalus- James Joyce
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Too excited to be genuinely happy"
Too excited to be genuinely happy James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink..."
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "There's no friends like the old friends"
There's no friends like the old friends James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Ah, there's no friends like the old friends."
Ah, there's no friends like the old friends. James Joyce
His prayer, addressed neither to God nor saint, began with a shiver, as the chilly morning breeze crept through the chink of the carriage door to his feet, and ended in a trail of foolish words which he made to fit the insistent rhythm of the train; and silently, at intervals of four seconds, the telegraph-poles held the galloping notes of the music between punctual bars. James Joyce
Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance…Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. 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 my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her... James Joyce
She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned. No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse. James Joyce

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