“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“[…] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“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.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”James Joyce Ulysses683 Source: Ulysses (1922)
“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.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“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.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
