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Dubliners quotes

James Joyce

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“our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should guard so jealously as that of its hospitality. It is a tradition that is unique as far as my experience goes” James Joyce, Dubliners
“there is no word tender enough to be your name” James Joyce, Dubliners
“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“After a quarter of a century of married life, she had very few illusions left.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“Hasn't the working-man as good a right to be in the Corporation as anyone else—ay, and a better right than those shoneens that are always hat in hand before any fellow with a handle to his name?” James Joyce, Dubliners

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