Quotes from work

Ulysses

“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“Love loves to love love.”

“Me. And me now.”

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”

“[…] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.”

“Every life is in 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.”

“What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.”

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”

“In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.”

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

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

“The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.”