"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."
— James Joyce

January 1, 1970

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Interview with Max Eastman in Harper's Magazine, as quoted in James Joyce (1959) by Richard Ellmann. Eastman noted "He smiled as he said that — smiled, and then repeated it."