James Joyce Quotes, Race Quotes, Ends Quotes

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.

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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

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What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.

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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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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.

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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

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Wipe your glosses with what you know.

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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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