"He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?" James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Daedalus, in Stephen Hero, ch. 21 (1944, rev. 1975). |
"It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish." James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Daedalus, in Stephen Hero, ch. 17 (1944, revised 1975).
In answer to Madden's attempts to convert him to Irish nationalism. |
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