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

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

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

“She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

"The Boarding House"
Dubliners (1914)

“The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book — or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it.”

James Joyce

To Djuna Barnes, in an interview published in Vanity Fair (March 1922)

“Quoint a quincidence! O. K. Omnius Kollidimus. As Ollover Krumwall sayed when he slepped ueber his grannyamother. Kangaroose feathers. Who in the name of thunder'd ever belevin you were that bolt?”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake (1939), p. 299

“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.”

James Joyce Ulysses

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.”

James Joyce book Pomes Penyeach

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

“If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”

James Joyce

Joyce's reply for a request for a plan of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce (1959) by Richard Ellmann

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

James Joyce book Pomes Penyeach

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.”

James Joyce

"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?”

James Joyce

Last words (January 1941)