Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1882 Death: January 13, 1941
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman..
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk..
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery..
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fa….
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body..
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible..
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire..
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me..
Love, yes. Word known to all men..
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I l….
Wipe your glosses with what you know..
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race..
What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down..
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jine….
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions..
I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answe….
Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good..
And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father..
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse..
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature..
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong fl….