Antedating of James Joyce quote

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yale quotes this famous dictum at third hand from Lucas, 1936.

1931 Max Eastman in _Harper's Magazine_ (Oct.): [Joyce said to me] "The
demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to
reading my works." He smiled as he said that - smiled and then repeated it.
And my answer was, "You absolutely insist on giving them all that pleasure!"

Gaak.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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