93 ordspråk av James Joyce

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James Joyce föddes den February 2nd 1882 och dog den 13 January 1941 - English writer
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 While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

 Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

 Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin.

 a case of too many people in a small space.

 A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

 A nation is the same people living in the same place.

 According to his brother Stanislaus . . . 'Unhappiness was like a vice.' He was cold and distant except with those closest to him, but when, on his mother's death, he discovered a bundle of letters that his father had written to her before they were married, he spent the whole afternoon reading them 'with as little compunction as a doctor or a lawyer . . . puts questions.' When he had finished, Stanislaus asked him: 'Well?' 'Nothing,' James Joyce answered curtly and rather contemptuously. Nothing, thought Stanislaus, for the young poet with a mission, but clearly something for the woman who had kept them all those years of neglect and poverty.

 All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

 And his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes

 And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

 As for Tolstoy, ... I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!

 Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

 By the age of 45, I knew I could no longer start a sentence with a mention of strudel. My fingers would want to do it but my mind just wouldn't react.

 Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

 Ever looked sufficiently at a quite everyday looking stamped addressed envelope? Admittedly it is an outer husk: its face, in all its featureful perfection of imperfection, is its fortune: it exhibits only the civil or military clothing of whatever p


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