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• Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.

  James Joyce

  Daughter, Running, Book

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1587, e-artnow

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• I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

  James Joyce

  Church, Spit, Insulted

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.198, Courier Dover Publications

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• Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

  James Joyce

  Romantic, Jesus, Youth

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• Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

  James Joyce

  Quotation Marks, Mark, Quotations

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• You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

  James Joyce

  Example, Free Thought, Said

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.403, Courier Dover Publications

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• A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

  James Joyce

  Regret, Clouds, Leaving

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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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.

  James Joyce

  Country, Art, Style

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.

  James Joyce

  Brother, Beer, Son

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.496, e-artnow

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• If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Simple, Use

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• I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

  James Joyce

  Dog, Winter, Whales

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• If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

  James Joyce

  Europe, Firsts, Ireland

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1910, Delphi Classics

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• Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

  James Joyce

  Father, Flower, Dark

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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.

  James Joyce

  Race, Ends, Chapters

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• Deal with him, Hemingway!

  James Joyce

  Heart, Deals

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• Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

  James Joyce

  Finnegans Wake, Secular, Ifs

  "Finnegans Wake". Book by James Joyce, 1939.

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• Signatures of all things I am here to read.

  James Joyce

  Signatures, Through My Eyes, All Things

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.248, e-artnow

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• First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

  James Joyce

  Men, Race, Illustration

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2179, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Prayer, Pride, Night

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.257, Courier Dover Publications

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• Wipe your glosses with what you know.

  James Joyce

  Wipe, Gloss, Knows

  James Joyce (2016). “Finnegans Wake”, p.273, James Joyce

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• Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

  James Joyce

  Thumbs, Window, Shoulders

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.245, e-artnow

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• If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

  James Joyce

  Politics, Language, Exile

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• So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

  James Joyce

  Book, Reading, Dublin

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.851, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Father, Mean, Home

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