James Joyce Frases famosas
“A história é um pesadelo do qual estamos tentando acordar.”
Variante: A História é um pesadelo do qual tentamos acordar.
Frases sobre o futuro de James Joyce
“Não há passado, nem futuro, tudo flui em um eterno presente.”
Para Jacques Mercanton, sobre a estrutura de Ulysses, citado em James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (1997) de Robert H. Deming, p. 22
James Joyce frases e citações
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
Fonte: Entrevista com Max Eastman, em Harper's Magazine, conforme citado no James Joyce (1959) por Richard Ellmann.
“Certa vez - e que linda vez que isso foi!”
Retrato do Artista Quando Jovem
Retrato do Artista Quando Jovem
pg 362
Ulisses
“Melhor escapar um culpado do que noventa-e-nove erroneamente condenados”
pg 514
Ulisses
pg 551
Ulisses
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce: Frases em inglês
“Have read little and understood less.”
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.”
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.”
Fonte: Dubliners
Letter to Augusta Gregory (22 November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, <small> ISBN 0-195-03381-7</small>] (p. 107)
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.”
Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 104
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Fonte: About his wife, Nora. Selected Letters of James Joyce. http://www.slate.com/id/2181165
“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.”
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
Letter to Augusta Gregory (22 November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, <small> ISBN 0-195-03381-7</small>] (p. 107)
“I am proud to be an emotionalist.”
Fonte: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man