Joyce Quotes
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A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
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Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett— 1981 In the NewYork Times,19 Apr.
Most cinema is built along19th-century models.You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes. Most of the cinema we've got is modelled on Dickens and Balzac and Jane Austen.
Peter Greenaway— 2004 In The Guardian,10 May.
No modern Irish writer, even of the stature of Yeats or Joyce, is completely free from traces of nationalism.
— 1945 'Notes on Nationalism'.
Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher: as Joyce says, it's about a dreamer, but it's addressed to an ideal reader suffering from ideal insomnia.
Northrop Frye— Talk 4, The Keys To Dreamland, p. 43
Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she?
joyce grenfell— American journalist, seeing the long queue for her memorial service. [1]
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
werner herzog— Conversation with Paul Holdengräber. (2007), “Was the 20th Century a Mistake?”, The Richard B. Saloman Distinguished Lectures & LIVE from the NYPL, Celeste Bartos Forum, New York (online at )
To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the Führer and National Socialism, and because I believe most ardently, as I do today, that victory and a perpetuation of the old system would be an incomparably greater evil for [England] than defeat coupled with a possibility of building something new, something really national, something truly socialist.
william joyce— Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 173. UK National Archives KV 2/245/285.
— Broadcast, 2 April 1941. In this broadcast Joyce for the first time identified himself, in response to an article in the London Evening Standard which claimed he ran a spy ring in Britain.
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.
Marshall McLuhan— p.183 ("The Agenbite of Outwit")
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.
vladimir nabokov— As quoted in What Is the Sangha?: The Nature of Spiritual Community (2001, pg. 136), by Sangharakshita.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
— used 2 February 2008, proposed by InvisibleSun
Genius still means to me, in my Russian, fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.
— Vladimir Nabokov, as quoted in What Is the Sangha? : The Nature of Spritual Community (2001) by Sangharakshita, p. 136
