His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
JAMES JOYCECivilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
More James Joyce Quotes
-
-
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
JAMES JOYCE -
I am proud to be an emotionalist.
JAMES JOYCE -
There’s no friends like the old friends.
JAMES JOYCE -
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
JAMES JOYCE -
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
JAMES JOYCE -
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCE -
Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
JAMES JOYCE -
Love loves to love love.
JAMES JOYCE -
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
JAMES JOYCE -
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
JAMES JOYCE -
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE -
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCE -
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCE -
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE -
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
JAMES JOYCE