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They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late.
Ulysses


James Joyce

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[on James Joyce's Ulysses]
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"No," Tessa said. Just torn my own in two. ...
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BRIAN CELIO There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they...
KATE DICAMILLO They sprayed the hell out of it, but it was too late. It had already spread.
J. HOWARD FRANK He started to estrange her...
And they became strangers
Who knew each other's heart, ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaki...
OSWALD CHAMBERS If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
FRANK DELANEY There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have alrea...
THOMAS PAINE Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulys...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the hea...
DAVID PETRAEUS When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had mos...
KIM YOUNG-HA But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the...
LOUIE GIGLIO I guess it says a lot for this whole team. They work real hard and try to get this thing as good as ...
DONNY SCHATZ It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
MITCH ALBOM she decided no human man would ever touch her again. the doors to her body and heart were already lo...
DIANNE SYLVAN If you hold on to something is bc you don't want lose it, yet I learned that you have to let it go w...
DAVID MATEOS Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.

He was in a precarious pos...
RICHELLE MEAD Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha...
JEANIENE FROST At first, when they got to the green they saw the two balls from Connecticut and Sacred Heart. When ...
GARY SKRINAR James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be un...
TOM STOPPARD no one can recover if they won’t admit the wrongdoings.
i won’t recover if i pretend it wa...
TAYLOR RHODES Words

Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON Their journey wasn’t complete. If their
relationship had been a poker tournament, unquestiona...
ALEATHA ROMIG A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes...
JAMES PATTERSON even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or...
BIDPAI (PILPAY) We are machines, all of us...
And what does a machine do when too much is assigned to it? When ...
EMILIE AUTUMN Pride and humiliation hand in hand
Walked with them through the world where'er they went;
...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I looked him in the eye."I will always love you." Then I plunged the stake into his chest.
It ...
RICHELLE MEAD You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent ‘heartily’...
DADA BHAGWAN Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
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SAMUEL BECKETT Hunter woke suddenly. A noise.
It was a noise unlike anything he’d ever heard before. Close! ...
MICHAEL GRANT Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too ...
THOMAS GRAY Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness to...
THOMAS GRAY To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
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VICTOR LAVALLE I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure ...
MARILYN MANSON It was 30 years too late for all of us. Poor Ed Wood died broke. He depended on his friends. It's to...
CONRAD BROOKS There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of Jam...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Spectacles, on that strong-featured face…and his hair mussed as if he had been tugging absently on...
LISA KLEYPAS There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasn’t done yet. She was a story, not an...
SEANAN MCGUIRE Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me...
PAULO COELHO They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or...
IAN SOMERHALDER I hate it
the way the heart
takes too long
to figure out what the mind
already k...
R.H. SIN I know it doesn’t make noise,” he explained. “Going through the motions is comforting to me. I...
DEBRA ANASTASIA I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.
CASPER VAN DIEN This is yet another in a series of attacks on the religious traditions on which our nation was found...
KEVIN MARTIN He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.
MATTHEW LEWIS Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
DALE CARNEGIE Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom dri...
FRANCIS BACON The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor...
DEYTH BANGER You could stab a knife right through my heart and you’d be too late.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
HORACE People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom dr...
FRANCIS BACON Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,
Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
REBECCA WEST I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Very early in my life it was already too late.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
GEORGE HERBERT While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke t...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were ...
DARREN SHAN For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
EVAN DANDO Titus, have you ever had your heart broken?”

“Oh, son. How could you ask a man who us...
ZACK LOVE These people all thought they knew him. They believed he was a whore, and sometimes he thought he wa...
BEVERLY L. ANDERSON Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to...
ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.
CASPER VAN DIEN Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
"Because I want you....
RICHELLE MEAD Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN …Lovers were not, Marina, *are* not permitted to know
destruction so deeply. Must be as if th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Eve...
JAMES LEE SCHMIDT Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...
LEO TOLSTOY What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated...
DANKA V. Villanelle - Roland Leighton

Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you overse...
ROLAND LEIGHTON Roza..."
The voice caressed my skin, cold and deadly. Still scrutinizing his surroundings, Dimi...
RICHELLE MEAD Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day?
Are they useless or t...
M.F. MOONZAJER WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM Picasso said he'd paint with his own wet tongue
on the dusty floor of a jail cell if he had to....
ANDREA GIBSON I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... I...
FRANK MCCOURT This man was trying to drive through the crowd, but they refused him passage. As he tried to reverse...
KALE KAYIHURA We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pa...
ADAM HAMILTON I have the reports from Gemson and Boyd,” Syn replied. His boots were up on the corner of his desk...
A.E. VIA Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN James would have needed about two months to prepare. It is a specialist item. He was informed too la...
JAMES PERRY Only a strong heart can be broken, because a fragile heart was already there when you discovered it.
MARIA BARRAGAN The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that a...
TOM ROBBINS She wasn’t broken.
She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks.
She was always tryi...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS I’ll always be broken,” I went on. “Because when I came here, no one fixed me. It’s not that...
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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.
JAMES JOYCE We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and lo...
JAMES JOYCE (BUSINESSMAN) It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.
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...
JOYCE BROTHERS