James Joyce Quotes

I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness.

— I mean, said Stephen, that I was not myself as I am now, as I had to become.

Everything in Paris is gay

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

Yes, it was her he was looking at, and there was meaning in his look. His eyes burned into her as though they would search her through and through, read her very soul.

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

(Of Shakespeare) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery (243)

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)

'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry (115.36)

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

What was after the universe?

Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist, as Friday (the trusty slave who arrives on an unlucky day) is the symbol of the subject races. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence; the unconscious cruelty; the persistence; the slow yet efficient intelligence; the sexual apathy; the practical, well-balanced religiousness; the calculating taciturnity.