Ulysses

By

James Joyce

QUOTATION: Do fish ever get seasick.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 13, “Nausicaa,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

QUOTATION: It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Stephen Dedalus, in Ulysses, ch. 1 of 1984 edition (1922).

QUOTATION: I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Stephen Dedalus, in Ulysses, ch. 2 of 1984 edition (1922).

QUOTATION: History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 2, “Nestor,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

QUOTATION: The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Buck Mulligan, in Ulysses, ch. 1 of 1984 edition (1922).

QUOTATION: Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 13, “Nausicaa,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

QUOTATION: A nation is the same people living in the same place.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Leopold Bloom, in Ulysses, ch. 12 (1922).

QUOTATION: The Irishman’s house is his coffin.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 6, “Hades,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

QUOTATION: He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 9, “Scylla and Charybdis,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

QUOTATION: Upon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato. Which of the two, Stephen asked, would have banished me from his commonwealth?
ATTRIBUTION: James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 9, “Scylla and Charybdis,” The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

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