James Joyce

Ulysses, modernist literature

Modern influential 112 sayings

Sayings by James Joyce

I have not been able to write a line for a long time. I am very tired, and very sad.

1920 — Letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some past day.

1922 — Ulysses
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He is a man who is not a man, but a brute, a beast, a monster.

1922 — Ulysses
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I am a verb, not a noun.

Unknown — Attributed remark
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The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.

1922 — Ulysses
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I am afraid of life, I am afraid of death, I am afraid of everything.

1904 — Letter to Nora Barnacle
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Love loves to love love.

1922 — Ulysses
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I am a lonely man, a very lonely man.

Unknown — Attributed remark
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

1916 — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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I have not read the book, but I have read the reviews.

1922 — Attributed remark about 'Ulysses'
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To learn to read in the school of life, to learn to write in the school of death.

1939 — Finnegans Wake
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I am a great admirer of myself.

Unknown — Attributed remark
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The soul is not where it lives but where it loves.

1922 — Ulysses
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I am not a writer, I am a verbalizer.

Unknown — Attributed remark
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The longest way round is the shortest way home.

1922 — Ulysses
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I am a man of letters, and I live by my wits.

Unknown — Attributed remark
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The past is something that you can't get rid of, it's always there.

1922 — Ulysses
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I am not afraid to make mistakes, I am afraid of not making them.

Unknown — Attributed remark
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The artist is a man who is always alone, even when he is with others.

1916 — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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I am not a good man, but I am not a bad man either.

Unknown — Attributed remark
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