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
writing names childhood
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
jesus father atheism
And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.
wind rose desire
Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
squares body lasts
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history....
soul praying destruction
What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
score tenors
Tenors get women by the score.
wine white looks
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
art laughter misery
Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
distance body
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
reading demand should
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
philosophy religion atheism
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
mind stones quagmire
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
voice space silence
The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.
ambition soul mouths
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.