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
fall eye angel
Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!
past men two
I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.
lying deceit done
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
love-is air wind
Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded, In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!
truth jest true-words
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
beautiful simple eggs
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
individuality eccentric individual
The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.
drinking sacred tongue
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...
running space rapids
...rapid motion through space elates one.
men unjust harsh
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
time hands water
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
time ruins eternity
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
angel errors way
A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.
eye vision signatures
Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.