Stephen Hines > Stephen's Quotes

“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
― Groucho Marx

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
― Lynda Barry

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”
― Lynda Barry

“You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”
― Lynda Barry, Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Love loves to love love.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”
― James Joyce , Ulysses

“Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying:
— That is God.
Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee!
— What? Mr Deasy asked.
— A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“...and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Shite and onions!”
― James Joyce, Ulysses