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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: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
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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He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
William S. Burroughs
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I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
Grace Paley
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People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
Jane Wiedlin
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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
Evan Dando
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I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
Felicity Jones