This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
("A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man")
More Quotes from James Joyce:
You can still die when the sun is shining.James Joyce
The snot green sea. The scrotum tightening sea.
James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.
James Joyce
I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland I mark the long winters and the isolation.
James Joyce
In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.
James Joyce
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.Brian Baird
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Richard Perle