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Quotes from Finnegans Wake — James Joyce

1882–1941 Ireland

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In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

Finnegans Wake (1939)

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

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A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.

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But toms will till. I know he well.

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Quoint a quincidence! O.K. Omnius Kollidimus. As Ollover Krumwall sayed when he slepped ueber his grannyamother. Kangaroose feathers. Who in the name of thunder'd ever belevin you were that bolt?

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'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry (115.36)

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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. (4.14-15)

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But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus (12.32-33)

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Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look, look, the dusk is growing!

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In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen. (419.9-10)

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Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)

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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. (4.15-17)

Finnegans Wake (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Joyce (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.