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
imagination loyal causes
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
time flames space
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
art joy feelings
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
country men soul
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
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.
stars memories secret
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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.