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
clouds treasure phrases
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
mother water tea
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
eye heaven tears
His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
shining darkness brightness
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
heart sick chaos
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
littles understood
Have read little and understood less.
thinking ideas jackasses
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
life distance past
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
catastrophe
I'll tickle his catastrophe.
running confused wire
I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
heart calm my-heart
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
wind giving lease
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
adventure path unseen
The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.
time
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.