More from James Joyce

  1. One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry …
  2. If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for…
  3. The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book - or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a …
  4. The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
  5. I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my boo…
  6. My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
  7. Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the…
  8. When I hear the word 'stream' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides,…

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