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James Joyce Quotes

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941

Topics

Writing Reading Why Reason English

I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

Jim Gray

I Am Me Someone Now Say Out

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Jerry Hunt

Myself Me Hands Play Always Piano

The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Dog Best Identity Picture Problem

In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

Rob Van Dam

Freedom Action More Individual WWE

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

Rod Stewart

Love Wine You Back Find Right

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

Michael Pena

Me Tough Advice Friends Acting

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

Mohsin Hamid

People Winning Artist Want Him Over

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Louis C. K.

Something Because Get Kids Most

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

Dennis Miller

Credibility Comedian

I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'

Corey Taylor

Attitude Music Place Why Understand

There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right, that it's not one or the other but that I am all of these things.

Alicia Garza

Community Myself Woman I Am Black

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Winona Ryder

Time Depression Crazy Thought Going