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James Joyce Quote: “He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”
James Joyce Quote: “The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.”
James Joyce Quote: “Was it right to kiss his mother or wrong to kiss his mother? 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?”
James Joyce Quote: “There’s the Belle for Sexaloitez! And Concepta de Send-us-pray! Pang! Wring out the clothes! Wring in the dew! Godavari, vert the showers! And grant thaya grace! Aman.”
James Joyce Quote: “Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!”
James Joyce Quote: “It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.”
James Joyce Quote: “The sad quiet grey-blue glow of the dying day came through the window and the open door, covering over and allaying quietly a sudden instinct of remorse in Stephen’s heart.”
James Joyce Quote: “No one wanted him; he was outcast from life’s feast.”
James Joyce Quote: “Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.”
James Joyce Quote: “Her beliefs were not extravagant. She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments. Her faith was bounded by her kitchen but, if she was put to it, she could believe also in the banshee and in the Holy Ghost.”
James Joyce Quote: “Ullahbluh! Sehyoh narar, pokehole sann! Manhead very dirty by am anoyato. Like old Dolldy Icon when he cooked up his iggs in bicon. He gatovit and me gotafit and Oalgoak’s Cheloven gut a fudden. Povar old pitschobed! Molodeztious.”
James Joyce Quote: “He had tales of distant countries.”
James Joyce Quote: “We were always loyal to lost causes, the professor said. Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them. I teach the blatant Latin language. I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination.”
James Joyce Quote: “It is an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god.”
James Joyce Quote: “But I am curious to know are you trying to make a convert of me or a pervert of yourself?”
James Joyce Quote: “Let there be fight? And there was.”
James Joyce Quote: “Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that’s the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?”
James Joyce Quote: “In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.”
James Joyce Quote: “Could it be that he, Stephen Dedalus, had done those things? His conscience sighed in answer. Yes, he had done them, secretly, filthily, time after time, and, hardened in sinful impenitence, he had dared to wear the mask of holinesss before the tabernacle itself while his soul within was a living mass of corruption.”
James Joyce Quote: “YesIsaidyesyesyesyesyes... YesIsaidyes! andagainyesyesyes – Molly Bloom.”
James Joyce Quote: “She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her.”
James Joyce Quote: “The glow of a late autumn sunset covered the grass plots and walks. It cast a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches; it flickered upon all the moving figures – on the children who ran screaming along the gravel paths and on everyone who passed through the gardens.”
James Joyce Quote: “He waited for some moments, listening, before he too took up the air with them. He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices. Even before they set out on life’s journey they seemed weary already of the way.”
James Joyce Quote: “A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.”
James Joyce Quote: “Justice it means but it’s everybody eating everyone else. That’s what life is after all.”
James Joyce Quote: “His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.”
James Joyce Quote: “He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul: and at every step his soul seemed to sigh: at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom.”
James Joyce Quote: “They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place. They would be alone, surrounded by darkness and silence: and in that moment of supreme tenderness he would be transfigured. He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment, he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.”
James Joyce Quote: “We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too.”
James Joyce Quote: “If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.”
James Joyce Quote: “Begin to forget it. It will remember itself from every sides, with all gestures in each our word. Today’s truth, tomorrow’s trend.”
James Joyce Quote: “He heard the sob passing loudly down his father’s throat and opened his eyes with a nervous impulse. The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light. His.”
James Joyce Quote: “The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one tiny human point, the window of a shriveled soul, poignant and selfembittered.”
James Joyce Quote: “She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain time. Asked me, was I writing poems? About whom? I asked her. This confused her more and I felt sorry and mean. Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries by Dante Alighieri...”
James Joyce Quote: “There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! his heart seemed to cry. Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. Where?”
James Joyce Quote: “He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died.”
James Joyce Quote: “OMNIUM GATHERUM.”

437. “OMNIUM GATHERUM.

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James Joyce Quote: “One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.”
James Joyce Quote: “He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices. Even before they set out on life’s journey they seemed weary already.”
James Joyce Quote: “Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”
James Joyce Quote: “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real. It must be. What are our ideas or ambitions? Play. Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.”
James Joyce Quote: “When she had gone he said, laughing: – We call it D. B. C. because they have damn bad cakes. O, but you missed Dedalus on Hamlet. Haines opened his newbought book. – I’m sorry, he said. Shakespeare is the happy huntingground. of all minds that have lost their balance.”
James Joyce Quote: “I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.”
James Joyce Quote: “Pincushions. I’m a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.”
James Joyce Quote: “Havvah-ban-Annah.”
James Joyce Quote: “We are once amore as babes awondering in a wold made fresh where with the hen in the storyaboot we start from scratch.”
James Joyce Quote: “When all things repose, do you alone Awake to hear the sweet harps play To Love before him on his way, And the night wind answering in antiphon Till night is overgone?”
James Joyce Quote: “And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the citizen.”
James Joyce Quote: “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. But though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people who prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the same God and God’s real name was God.”
James Joyce Quote: “Then I went to a certain nightclub. There were men there – and also women. At least, they looked like women.”
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