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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
"The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator."
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"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history."
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."
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