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
politics language exile
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.
love men known
Love, yes. Word known to all men.
love sex writing
O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter....
book reading needs
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.
men artist law
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.
men long care
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
art perfection prepared
I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.
love life fleeting
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.
love-is facts phenomenon
Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself
beer bishops bulldogs
British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.
art hate tired
I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.
quotation-marks mark quotations
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
athlete heart feet
There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.
charm pins loses
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.