James Joyce Quotes, Food Quotes, Squares Quotes

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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As you are now so once were we.

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The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

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You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

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Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

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Shut your eyes and see.

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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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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 flower.

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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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