Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1882 Death: January 13, 1941
Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character..
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well..
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff..
I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of a….
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am..
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed..
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination..
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy..
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it..
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….
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of ….
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of ins….
Life is too short to read a bad book..
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood..
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed..
There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human..
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought..
Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy….
I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a t….
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He….
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