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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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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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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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

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Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

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

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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

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There's no friends like the old friends.

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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

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A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

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Love loves to love love.

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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

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