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last updated: November 28, 2023

Jesse Joyce is a great writer.
-- Dave Attell

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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
-- Evan Dando

Source : "'I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
-- Jane Wiedlin

Source : "Jane Wiedlin lists her favorite SF things" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2012.

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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
-- Samuel Beckett

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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
-- Tom Stoppard

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“MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.”
“I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?”
“There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.”
“When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.”
“I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.”
“Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.”
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....”
“Maybe Bill Maher should just practice his monologue a few times before the show, so he wouldn't find it so hilarious. But I kid the asshole.”
“I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.”