...rapid motion through space elates one. James Joyce More Quotes by James Joyce More Quotes From James Joyce We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race. James Joyce chapters ends race I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza. James Joyce tired hate art Across the page the numbers moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes. James Joyce History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. James Joyce I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning. James Joyce I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality. James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives. James Joyce The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. James Joyce brainy thoughts best men Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce cannot part pleasure art God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear. James Joyce hear voices you god When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. James Joyce die will dublin written heart
