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
past long castles
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
writing heart cities
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
inspirational work passion
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
faith light soul
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light...
knowledge men errors
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
family mothers-day mom
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
old-friends no-friends
There's no friends like the old friends.
names blood foolish
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
art philosophy history
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
unhappy said bigs
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
beautiful artist creation
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
love life
Love loves to love love.
life fall snow
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
hunting mind balance
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.