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
men trying language
When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
father
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
eating-well eating modest
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
wine the-end-of-the-day drink
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?
philosophy mind age
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
past mindfulness plunge
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
book singing rooms
I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.
death way different
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
inspirational america lasts
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
decent brazen
You get a decent do at the Brazen Head
hands water i-can
I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?
men curves lines
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
weed cylinders mouths
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
beautiful believe love-you
You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.