James Joyce Quotes - Page 6

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• Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
  Dancing a ring-around in glee
  From furrow to furrow, while overhead
  The foam flies up to be garlanded,
  In silvery arches spanning the air,
  Saw you my true love anywhere?
  Welladay! Welladay!
  For the winds of May!
  Love is unhappy when love is away!

  James Joyce

  Love Is, Air, Wind

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2037, Delphi Classics

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• There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

  James Joyce

  Doubt, Going Away, Dublin

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

  James Joyce

  Wife, Weak Points, Weak

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.326, GENERAL PRESS

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• I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said Joyce. "I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence.

  James Joyce

  Mean, Order, Two

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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.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Eye, Tears

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• Does nobody understand?

  James Joyce

  Understanding, Dying, Doe

  James Joyce (2011). “The Dead (Annotated)”, p.6, BookBaby

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• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

  James Joyce

  Reading, Writing, Reason Why

  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.3562, e-artnow

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• And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

  James Joyce

  Jesus, Father, Atheism

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• Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

  James Joyce

  Wind, Giving, Lease

  James Joyce (2015). “Ulysses”, p.114, James Joyce

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• A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

  James Joyce

  Charm, Pins, Loses

  1922 Ulysses.

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• What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

  James Joyce

  Love, Mines, My Own

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.813, eBookIt.com

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• Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

  James Joyce

  Song, Sadness, Sleep

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.1674, eBookIt.com

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• Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

  James Joyce

  Soul, Lovers, Sin

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.431, Courier Dover Publications

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• Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

  James Joyce

  Friendship, Love Is, Men

  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.1536, e-artnow

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• Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

  James Joyce

  Eye, Vision, Signatures

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.37, GENERAL PRESS

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• Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

  James Joyce

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Regret

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.740, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

  James Joyce

  Daughter, Memories, War

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2218, Delphi Classics

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• He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

  James Joyce

  Life, Distance, Reflection

  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.1533, e-artnow

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• I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

  James Joyce

  Men, Unjust, Harsh

  James Joyce (1966). “Letters”

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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.

  James Joyce

  Book, Cities, Giving

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.25, Oxford Paperbacks

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• His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

  James Joyce

  Eye, Heaven, Tears

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.287, Courier Dover Publications

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• As you are now so once were we.

  James Joyce

  James Joyce (2015). “Ulysses”, p.118, James Joyce

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• Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

  James Joyce

  Eating Well, Eating, Modest

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

  James Joyce

  Life, Reality, Race

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

  James Joyce

  Men, Mind, Eternity

  James Joyce (2013). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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