You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner
I decline to accept the end of man.
William Faulkner
Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.
William Faulkner
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.
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