James Joyce Quotes, Fiction Quotes

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

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It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

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I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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God made food; the devil the cooks.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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