It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything.
("A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man")
More Quotes from James Joyce:
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.James Joyce
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
James Joyce
What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? Incomplete.
James Joyce
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
James Joyce
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.Edith Sitwell
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Carter Burwell
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
Jeffery Deaver