James Joyce Quotes, Fiction Quotes

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

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I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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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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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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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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Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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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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My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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

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