James Joyce Quotes, Mean Quotes, Order Quotes

I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said Joyce. "I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence.

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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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Thought is the thought of thought.

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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

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Love loves to love love.

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

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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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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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The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

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In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

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