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James Joyce quotes

Irish Novelist February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941

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It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric? They had big voices and big boots and they studied trigonometry. James Joyce
That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. It is a good odour to breathe. It will calm my heart. My heart is quite calm now. I will go back. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. James Joyce
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. James Joyce
Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Raumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "God made food; the devil the cooks."
God made food; the devil the cooks. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body."
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of..."
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. James Joyce
No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude; and the artist, though he may employ the crowd, is very careful to isolate himself. James Joyce
The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it. James Joyce
You suspect, Stephen retorted with a sort of a half laugh, that I may be important because I belong to the fauborgh Saint Patrice called Ireland for short. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by..."
...his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes.. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Were all important in god's eyes."
Were all important in god's eyes. James Joyce
What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down. James Joyce
James Joyce quote: "Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?"
Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for? James Joyce

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