42 Quotes About James-joyce

[James] Joyce... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized....

The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot.

Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe.

We were working on what became Finnegan's Wake, and there was a knock at the door. I didn't hear it, so when Joyce said, "Come in" I wrote down "Come in". I never took it out. It made as much sense as anything else. I like to imagine earnest literary students writing theses on the meaning and implications of that "Come in" in the book.

Suck it yourself, sugarstick!

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, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use---silence, exile and cunning.

Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.

The sad quiet greyblue glow of the dying day came through the window and the open door, covering over and allaying quietly a sudden instinct of remorse in Stephen's heart. All that had been denied them had been freely given to him, the eldest: but the quiet glow of evening showed him in their faces no sign of rancour.