Villeparisis Code Quotes & Sayings

I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce.
Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.
Two sentences," said Joyce.
I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said.
No," said Joyce. "I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. — James Joyce

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment. — Utada Hikaru

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping. — Billie Joe Armstrong

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition. — Idries Shah

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important. — Saul Leiter