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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of ...
JAMES JOYCE Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giant...
JAMES JOYCE To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life.
JAMES JOYCE Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can...
JAMES JOYCE When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and no...
JAMES JOYCE The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCE A nation is the same people living in the same place.
JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE A tide began to surge beneath the calm surface of Stephen's friendliness.
This race and this cou...
JAMES JOYCE I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Pa...
JAMES JOYCE I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring...
JAMES JOYCE I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer be...
JAMES JOYCE An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
JAMES JOYCE Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not.
JAMES JOYCE Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his ar...
JAMES JOYCE He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the...
JAMES JOYCE While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robbe...
JAMES JOYCE Heart of my heart, were it more,
More would be laid at your feet.
JAMES JOYCE Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover...
JAMES JOYCE All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inc...
JAMES JOYCE Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in m...
JAMES JOYCE You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like sa...
JAMES JOYCE When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respec...
JAMES JOYCE What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put...
JAMES JOYCE You cannot eat your cake and have it.
JAMES JOYCE The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork...
JAMES JOYCE I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday o...
JAMES JOYCE A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of...
JAMES JOYCE The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
JAMES JOYCE Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
JAMES JOYCE I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries argu...
JAMES JOYCE A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
JAMES JOYCE Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
JAMES JOYCE God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
JAMES JOYCE My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
JAMES JOYCE Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ...
JAMES JOYCE I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
JAMES JOYCE He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCE There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
JAMES JOYCE Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork,...
JAMES JOYCE When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
JAMES JOYCE Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither di...
JAMES JOYCE It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
JAMES JOYCE He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul ...
JAMES JOYCE What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.
JAMES JOYCE Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sen...
JAMES JOYCE Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behin...
JAMES JOYCE Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
JAMES JOYCE You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
JAMES JOYCE A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.'

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JAMES JOYCE My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
JAMES JOYCE The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
JAMES JOYCE Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and...
JAMES JOYCE I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer be...
JAMES JOYCE When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of natio...
JAMES JOYCE The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
JAMES JOYCE Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he ...
JAMES JOYCE Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them wha...
JAMES JOYCE Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
JAMES JOYCE Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk
JAMES JOYCE Shut your eyes and see.
JAMES JOYCE What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, prete...
JAMES JOYCE Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
JAMES JOYCE and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCE A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched s...
JAMES JOYCE Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to ...
JAMES JOYCE YesIsaidyesyesyesyesyes...YesIsaidyes! andagainyesyesyes -- Molly Bloom
JAMES JOYCE And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and str...
JAMES JOYCE He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
JAMES JOYCE Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.
JAMES JOYCE Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair besid...
JAMES JOYCE The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birt...
JAMES JOYCE By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing mov...
JAMES JOYCE if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.
JAMES JOYCE The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed ...
JAMES JOYCE To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
JAMES JOYCE I am proud to be an emotionalist.
JAMES JOYCE The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of...
JAMES JOYCE What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tortures of hell forever? Forever! For all eternity! Not...
JAMES JOYCE Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
JAMES JOYCE This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
JAMES JOYCE A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonised in a ch...
JAMES JOYCE Have read little and understood less.
JAMES JOYCE The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question...
JAMES JOYCE You can still die when the sun is shining.
JAMES JOYCE He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and...
JAMES JOYCE Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in ...
JAMES JOYCE Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague spe...
JAMES JOYCE You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fea...
JAMES JOYCE His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from...
JAMES JOYCE Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: t...
JAMES JOYCE Me. And me now.
JAMES JOYCE To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCE The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
JAMES JOYCE Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
JAMES JOYCE I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the ri...
JAMES JOYCE Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion
JAMES JOYCE No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.
JAMES JOYCE It's designed to capture viruses from your entire blood system. It's designed to capture viruses bef...
JAMES JOYCE I am who I am because of who I was.
JAMES JOYCE The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and par...
JAMES JOYCE My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire
JAMES JOYCE Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
JAMES JOYCE The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works
JAMES JOYCE Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.
JAMES JOYCE Every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.
JAMES JOYCE 'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake
JAMES JOYCE I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or ...
JAMES JOYCE As for Tolstoy, ... I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dul...
JAMES JOYCE When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
JAMES JOYCE Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, n...
JAMES JOYCE Love loves to love love
JAMES JOYCE The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in so...
JAMES JOYCE Ever looked sufficiently at a quite everyday looking stamped addressed envelope? Admittedly it is an...
JAMES JOYCE You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desir...
JAMES JOYCE Ireland is the sow that eats her own farrow
JAMES JOYCE I belong to the faubourg Saint-Patrice called Ireland for short
JAMES JOYCE The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork,...
JAMES JOYCE My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twic...
JAMES JOYCE Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle's to be. Northmen's thing made southfolk's place but howmulty plurato...
JAMES JOYCE What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it sto...
JAMES JOYCE Today, there are not drug or vaccine treatments for a majority of those treatments. In the absence o...
JAMES JOYCE Night, Night. Tellmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of hitherandthithering waters ...
JAMES JOYCE We feel that the downside in IT demand is roughly offset by the benefits of the actions we have take...
JAMES JOYCE I regard him as the whitest man I know. He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of...
JAMES JOYCE We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of ai...
JAMES JOYCE I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing ...
JAMES JOYCE Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship b...
JAMES JOYCE No, it did lots of other things too.
JAMES JOYCE a case of too many people in a small space.
JAMES JOYCE According to his brother Stanislaus . . . 'Unhappiness was like a vice.' He was cold and distant exc...
JAMES JOYCE So beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thin...
JAMES JOYCE School and home seem to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.
JAMES JOYCE She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned. No one would thin...
JAMES JOYCE He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became...
JAMES JOYCE The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
JAMES JOYCE It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly und...
JAMES JOYCE Generous tears filled Gabriel's eyes. He had never felt like that himself towards any woman, but he ...
JAMES JOYCE He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still ca...
JAMES JOYCE A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arte...
JAMES JOYCE There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Du...
JAMES JOYCE There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them ...
JAMES JOYCE I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life...
JAMES JOYCE It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park...
JAMES JOYCE No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
JAMES JOYCE He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some ...
JAMES JOYCE Love between man and woman is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse, and friendshi...
JAMES JOYCE Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
JAMES JOYCE When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in t...
JAMES JOYCE I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her ...
JAMES JOYCE Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes bur...
JAMES JOYCE There's no friends like the old friends.
JAMES JOYCE He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He h...
JAMES JOYCE I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
adventures, I reflected, do not happen t...
JAMES JOYCE Too excited to be genuinely happy
JAMES JOYCE Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
JAMES JOYCE One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glor...
JAMES JOYCE They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already....
JAMES JOYCE It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding,...
JAMES JOYCE Let my country die for me.
JAMES JOYCE I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or ...
JAMES JOYCE My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
JAMES JOYCE no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns
JAMES JOYCE Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
JAMES JOYCE Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
JAMES JOYCE All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inc...
JAMES JOYCE His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. Hi...
JAMES JOYCE But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of m...
JAMES JOYCE Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the bla...
JAMES JOYCE Love loves to love love.
JAMES JOYCE Here, and it goes on to appear now, she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother, a pr...
JAMES JOYCE I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all...
JAMES JOYCE My sweet naughty girl I got your hot letter tonight and have been trying to picture you frigging you...
JAMES JOYCE Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabiduría aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabiduría de l...
JAMES JOYCE If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.
JAMES JOYCE All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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JAMES JOYCE (CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSIONER) It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like...
JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can...
JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if...
JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity.
JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo...
JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped...
JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han...
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