807 Quotes by James Joyce

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

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.

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

Love, yes. Word known to all men.

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms

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

O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter....