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Quotes About Interpretation

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
~ James Joyce
A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
~ James Joyce
Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies.
~ James Joyce
I think he died for me, she answered.
~ James Joyce
But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.
~ James Joyce
Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.
~ James Joyce
Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of sings (please stoop), in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world?
~ James Joyce
O, undoubtedly yes, and very potable so, but one who deeper thinks will always bear in the baccbuccus of his mind that this downright there you are and there it is is only all in his eye. Why?
~ James Joyce
Pantolon için, elden düÅŸme deÄŸil)... götten düÅŸme denmesi laz?m.
~ James Joyce
Unsheathe your dagger definitions.
~ James Joyce
He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.
~ James Joyce
Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet?
~ James Joyce
The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo. Lord, I mustn't lilt here.
~ James Joyce
Havvah-ban-Annah
~ James Joyce
When she had gone he said, laughing: —We call it D. B. C. because they have damn bad cakes. O, but you missed Dedalus on Hamlet. Haines opened his newbought book. —I'm sorry, he said. Shakespeare is the happy huntingground. of all minds that have lost their balance.
~ James Joyce
Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.
~ James Joyce
and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...)
~ James Joyce
He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur.
~ James Joyce
and even I, looking at the high masts, saw, or imagined, the geography which had been scantily dosed to me at school gradually taking substance under my eyes.
~ James Joyce
Saas and taas and specis bizaas.
~ James Joyce
We are right, he said, and the others are wrong. To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand- that is art.
~ James Joyce
C ést le pigeon, Joseph.
~ James Joyce
With: Go Ferchios off to Allad out of this! An oldsteinsong. He threwed his fit up to his aers, rolled his poligone eyes, snivelled from his snose and blew the guff out of his hornypipe.
~ James Joyce
postmodernism asserts the liberating insignificance of art
~ James Joyce