James Joyce Quotes, Fiction Quotes

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!

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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

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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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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

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I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.

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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

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The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

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I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

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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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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

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