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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 is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
~ James Joyce
The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant of his joyicity.
~ James Joyce
I'll tickle his catastrophe.
~ James Joyce
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
~ James Joyce
The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot.
~ James Joyce
like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars.
~ James Joyce
The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.
~ James Joyce
Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On
~ James Joyce
Knock knock. War's where! Which war? The Twwinns. Knock knock. Woos without! Without what? An apple. Knock knock.
~ James Joyce
Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody's body.
~ James Joyce
The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.
~ James Joyce
Sparkling bronze azure eyed Blazure's skyblue bow and eyes.
~ James Joyce
For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.
~ James Joyce
His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.
~ James Joyce
Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.
~ James Joyce
If that is rhythm, said Lynch, let me hear what you call beauty: and, please remember, though I did eat a cake of cowdung once, that I admire only beauty.
~ James Joyce
I bar the candles,.... I bar the magic-lantern business.
~ James Joyce
him wearily halfway and sat down on the edge of the gunrest, watching him still as he propped his
~ James Joyce
his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..
~ James Joyce
The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur — nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.
~ James Joyce
Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he hasn't got much of a bark And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
~ James Joyce
935--If that is rhythm, said Lynch, let me hear what you call beauty: and, please remember, though I did eat a cake of cowdung once, that I admire only beauty.
~ James Joyce
Reefer was a wenchman.
~ James Joyce
But the surest sign that his confession had been good and that he had had sincere sorrow for his sin was, he knew, the amendment of his life. —I have amended my life, have I not? he asked himself.
~ James Joyce