James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joycewas an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1882
CityRathgar, Ireland
CountryIreland
insomnia suffering reader
That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.
glasses wipe knows
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
country writing men
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard.
together bounds antipathy
We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
jesus men bachelors
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
differences literature youth
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
genius erratic originality
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
children punishment educated
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
awakening nightmare
History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.
live-life long want
I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.
adventure insecure choices
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.
thinking poetry favourite
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.
race ends chapters
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.
ireland
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.