James Joyce Quotes, Eye Quotes, Voice Quotes

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

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

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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

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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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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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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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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

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