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James Joyce Bizarre Quotes
(01 of22)
"Does nobody understand?"Last words (January 1941)IMAGE:PA/PA Archive/Press Association Images
(02 of22)
"I was blue mouldy for the want of that pint."Ulysses
(03 of22)
"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."Interview in Harper's Magazine (1959)IMAGE: REX
(04 of22)
''Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.''ULYSEESIMAGE: Wendy Conroy dressed in period costume with a copy of Ulysses. Julien Behal/PA Wire
(05 of22)
"I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women."About his wife, Nora. Selected Letters of James Joyce. IMAGE: Getty
(06 of22)
"Molly Bloom was a down-to-earth lady. She would never have indulged in anything so refined as a stream of consciousness."Quoted in Prokosch's Voices: A MemoirIMAGE: PA
(07 of22)
"You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman."ExilesIMAGE: Wikipedia
(08 of22)
"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."Ulysses
(09 of22)
"We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset." Finnegans Wake
(10 of22)
"But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires."DublinersIMAGE: Milliner John Shevlin poses as James Joyce. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire
(11 of22)
"Three quarks for Muster Mark!"Finnegan's Wake IMAGE: Getty
(12 of22)
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."Ulysses
(13 of22)
"Thaw! The last word in stolentelling!"Finnegans WakeIMAGE: Getty
(14 of22)
"But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus" Finnegans Wake
(15 of22)
"British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops."UlyssesIMAGE: Flickr.com/Robert Scarth
(16 of22)
"The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea."Ulysses
(17 of22)
"Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself"Notes made by Joyce for his play ExilesIMAGE: Wikipedia
(18 of22)
"Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness."On Ulysses, quoted in James Joyce: The Critical HeritageIMAGE: AP/AP/Press Association Images
(19 of22)
"Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him." James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(20 of22)
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.''The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran IMAGE: Wikipedia
(21 of22)
"No God for Ireland! he cried. We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(22 of22)
''The Irishman's house is his coffin.''UlyssesThomas M Kelly reads a copy of James Joyces' Ulysses in the authors study at the James Joyce Centre for the annual Bloomsday festival. IMAGE: Niall Carson/PA Wire