James Joyce, Ulysses
23 quotes
"Let my country die for me."
"Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand."
"What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?"
"... I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown.- Give it a name, citizen, says Joe.- Wine of the country, says he.- What's yours? says Joe.- Ditto MacAnaspey, says I.- Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he."
"He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage."
"Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will."
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
"To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher."
"So beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hatrack no wonder they hide it with a cabbageleaf"
"Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history."
"You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?"
"Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all."
"Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound."
"And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him."
"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
"Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost."
"The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea."
"She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband."
"I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space."
"Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity."
"Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character."
"The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue..."
"Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places."