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“Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)”

(Finnegans Wake ends with the word 'the')
Finnegans Wake (1939)

“I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”

Said in conversation with Frank Budgen, Zurich, 1918, as told by Budgen http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.BudgenUlysses.p0092&id=JoyceColl.BudgenUlysses&isize=M&pview=hide in his book James Joyce and the Making of "Ulysses" (1934), ch. IV

“Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.”

A Memory Of The Players In A Mirror At Midnight, p. 19
Pomes Penyeach (1927)

“How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling”

She Weeps Over Rahoon, p. 12
Pomes Penyeach (1927)

“To say that a great genius is half-mad, while recognizing his artistic prowess, is worth as much as saying that he was rheumatic, or that he suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical expression to which a balanced critic should pay no more heed than he would to the accusation of heresy brought by the theologian, or to the accusation of immorality brought by the public prosecutor.”

"Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe - William Blake)," lecture, Università Popolare, Trieste (February 27-28, 1912), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 179

“Does nobody understand?”

Last words (January 1941)