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
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.
love life ocean
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.
brother beer son
Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.
imagination bread body
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
dream heart vision
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
baby boys once-upon-a-time
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
drinking availability masturbation
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
flower obscurity unseen
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
horse bulls horns
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
people nations
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
long pages gone
When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…