James Joyce: Frasi in inglese (pagina 10)

James Joyce era scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)”

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James Joyce libro Finnegans Wake

(Finnegans Wake ends with the word 'the')
Finnegans Wake (1939)

“She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.”

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James Joyce libro Gente di Dublino

"The Boarding House"
Dubliners (1914)

“The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book — or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it.”

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James Joyce

To Djuna Barnes, in an interview published in Vanity Fair (March 1922)

“Quoint a quincidence! O. K. Omnius Kollidimus. As Ollover Krumwall sayed when he slepped ueber his grannyamother. Kangaroose feathers. Who in the name of thunder'd ever belevin you were that bolt?”

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James Joyce libro Finnegans Wake

Origine: Finnegans Wake (1939), p. 299

“I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Said in conversation with Frank Budgen, Zurich, 1918, as told by Budgen http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.BudgenUlysses.p0092&id=JoyceColl.BudgenUlysses&isize=M&pview=hide in his book James Joyce and the Making of "Ulysses" (1934), ch. IV

“Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.”

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James Joyce libro Pomes Penyeach

A Memory Of The Players In A Mirror At Midnight, p. 19
Pomes Penyeach (1927)

“If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. 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 immortality.”

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Joyce's reply for a request for a plan of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce (1959) by Richard Ellmann

“How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling”

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James Joyce libro Pomes Penyeach

She Weeps Over Rahoon, p. 12
Pomes Penyeach (1927)

“My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.”

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James Joyce libro Giacomo Joyce

Giacomo Joyce (1968)

“To say that a great genius is half-mad, while recognizing his artistic prowess, is worth as much as saying that he was rheumatic, or that he suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical expression to which a balanced critic should pay no more heed than he would to the accusation of heresy brought by the theologian, or to the accusation of immorality brought by the public prosecutor.”

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"Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe - William Blake)," lecture, Università Popolare, Trieste (February 27-28, 1912), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 179

“Does nobody understand?”

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Last words (January 1941)