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
athlete heart feet
There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.
charm pins loses
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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.
taken serious
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
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.