03c. 1911 ADThe light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.James Joyce / quote ↗
04c. 1911 ADShe was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.James Joyce / quote ↗
06c. 1911 ADHer lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.James Joyce / quote ↗
07c. 1911 ADOur flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.James Joyce / quote ↗
08c. 1911 ADThe artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.James Joyce / quote ↗
09c. 1911 ADEvery life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.James Joyce / quote ↗
11c. 1911 ADPity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.James Joyce / quote ↗
12c. 1911 ADThe present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.James Joyce / quote ↗
13c. 1911 ADTo say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.James Joyce / quote ↗
16c. 1911 ADBetter pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.James Joyce / quote ↗
17c. 1911 ADI think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.James Joyce / quote ↗
18c. 1911 ADA man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James Joyce / quote ↗
19c. 1911 ADWhatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.James Joyce / quote ↗
21c. 1911 ADMen are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.James Joyce / quote ↗
24c. 1911 ADChristopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.James Joyce / quote ↗
