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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo….
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Opening lines

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus

No God for Ireland! he cried. We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Mr. Casey, on how the Irish Catholic Church betrayed Irish nationalism and hounded Charles Stewart Parnell 'to his grave'.

We are a priestridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter…a priestridden Godforsaken race!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus

Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead king!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Mr. Casey

He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips. They pressed upon his brain as upon his lips as though they were the vehicle of vague speech; and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus

His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice. The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus telling his sins to the priest in confession

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus

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James Joyce : Irish writer of novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Born 1882. Died 1941.