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James Joyce Quote: “A world, a glimmer or a flower? Glimmering and trembling, trembling and unfolding, a breaking light, an opening flower, it spread in endless succession to itself, breaking in full crimson and unfolding and fading to palest rose, leaf by leaf and wave of light by wave of light, flooding all the heavens with its soft flushes, every flush deeper than the other.”
James Joyce Quote: “Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.”
James Joyce Quote: “Does nobody understand?”
James Joyce Quote: “Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.”
James Joyce Quote: “White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of. And the cards for first place and second place and third place were beautiful colours too: pink and cream and lavender. Lavender and cream and pink roses were beautiful to think of. Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he remembered the song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place. But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could.”
James Joyce Quote: “Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?”
James Joyce Quote: “I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
James Joyce Quote: “All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.”
James Joyce Quote: “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.”
James Joyce Quote: “We’ll meet again, we’ll part once more.”
James Joyce Quote: “The cat walked stiffly round a leg of the table with tail on high. – Mkgnao! – O, there you are, Mr Bloom said, turning from the fire. The cat mewed in answer and stalked again stiffly round a leg of the table, mewing. Just how she stalks over my writingtable. Prr. Scratch my head. Prr.”
James Joyce Quote: “I don’t mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father’s house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen’s answer.”
James Joyce Quote: “The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo. Lord, I mustn’t lilt here.”
James Joyce Quote: “Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.”
James Joyce Quote: “A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God’s power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.”
James Joyce Quote: “O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter...”
James Joyce Quote: “I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you.”
James Joyce Quote: “Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.”
James Joyce Quote: “I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.”
James Joyce Quote: “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. A wild angel appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!”
James Joyce Quote: “The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.”
James Joyce Quote: “Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”
James Joyce Quote: “Agenbite of Inwit.”
James Joyce Quote: “Into the wikeawades warld from sleep we are passing.”
James Joyce Quote: “Haines sat down to pour out the tea. – I’m giving you two lumps each, he said. But, I say, Mulligan, you do make strong tea, don’t you? Buck Mulligan, hewing thick slices from the loaf, said in an old woman’s wheedling voice: – When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”
James Joyce Quote: “You get a decent do at the Brazen Head.”
James Joyce Quote: “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.”
James Joyce Quote: “So weenybeenyveenyteeny.”
James Joyce Quote: “The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton – Parnell – never a man.”
James Joyce Quote: “The duties of the priest towards the Eucharist and towards the secrecy of the confessional seemed so grave to me that I wondered how anybody had ever found in himself the courage to undertake them; and I was not surprised when he told me that the fathers of the Church had written books as thick as the Post Office Directory and as closely printed as the law notices in the newspaper, elucidating all these intricate questions.”
James Joyce Quote: “There was cold sunlight outside the window.”
James Joyce Quote: “We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.”
James Joyce Quote: “If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?”
James Joyce Quote: “It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt small and weak. When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric? They had big voices and big boots and they studied trigonometry.”
James Joyce Quote: “I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”
James Joyce Quote: “By thinking of things you could understand them.”
James Joyce Quote: “Bite my laughters, drink my tears. Pore into me, volumes, spell me stark and spill me swooning, I just don’t care what my thwarters think.”
James Joyce Quote: “Make me feel good in the moontime.”
James Joyce Quote: “But can those have been possible seeing that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass?”
James Joyce Quote: “Funny the way those newspaper men veer about when they get wind of a new opening. Weathercocks. Hot and cold in the same breath. Wouldn’t know which to believe. One story good till you hear the next. Go for one another baldheaded in the papers and then all blows over. Hail fellow well met the next moment.”
James Joyce Quote: “Lips kissed, kissing kissed.”
James Joyce Quote: “Do you know what Ireland is?′ asked Stephen with cold violence. ‘Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”
James Joyce Quote: “It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God could do that. He tried to think what a big thought that must be; but he could only think of God. God was God’s name just as his name was Stephen. DIEU was the French for God and that was God’s name too; and when anyone prayed to God and said DIEU then God knew at once that it was a French person that was praying.”
James Joyce Quote: “He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter – even further to distort – what he has seen and heard.”
James Joyce Quote: “If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn’t have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives’ spits.”
James Joyce Quote: “For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I’ll slip away before they’re up. They’ll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me.”
James Joyce Quote: “Deal with him, Hemingway!”
James Joyce Quote: “Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the real world about them.”
James Joyce Quote: “Knock knock. War’s where! Which war? The Twwinns. Knock knock. Woos without! Without what? An apple. Knock knock.”
James Joyce Quote: “Every word of it was for him. Against his sin, foul and secret, the whole wrath of God was aimed. The preacher’s knife had probed deeply into his diseased conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.”
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