Joyce Quotes - Page 5

• I don't want to come off like a girl scout and 'Isn't she sweet?' but the honest-to-God truth is I had seven years of a great show. It put me on the map. Yes, I'm associated with Joyce, but this is not chopped liver.

  Veronica Hamel

  Girl, Sweet, Years

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• A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he's been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories.

  Madeline Miller

  Voice, Different, Generations

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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

  Trying, Synthesizers, I Can

  1981 In the New York Times,19 Apr.

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