James Joyce Quotes
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Three quarks for Muster Mark! (383.1)
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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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Loveward above the glancing oar
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
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And mine a shielded heart for herWho gathers simples of the moon.
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Quoint a quincidence! O.K. Omnius Kollidimus. As Ollover Krumwall sayed when he slepped ueber his grannyamother. Kangaroose feathers. Who in the name of thunder'd ever belevin you were that bolt?
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
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Frail the white rose and frail areHer hands that gave
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He caun ne'er be bothered but maun e'er be waked. If there is a future in every past that is present Quis est qui non novit quinnigan and Qui quae quot at Quinnigan's Quake! Stump! His producers are they not his consumers? Your exagmination round his factification for incamination of a warping process. Declaim! (496.34 - 497.3)
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He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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I’ve lapped so long. As you said. It fair takes. If I lose my breath for a minute or two don’t speak, remember! Once it happened, so it may again. (625.27 - 625.29)
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Humme the Cheapner, Esc, overseen as we thought him, yet worthy of the naym, came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial fermament one tide on another (29.30)
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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
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End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thousandsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. (628.13 to 3.3)
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Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)
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Does nobody understand?
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in the Nichtian glossery which purveys aprioric roots for aposteriorious tongues this is nat language at any sinse of the world (83.10-12)