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
children punishment educated
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
taken serious
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
awakening nightmare
History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.
live-life long want
I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.
adventure insecure choices
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.
thinking poetry favourite
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.
race ends chapters
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.
ireland
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
men skeletons people
The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.
action faculty
The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.
romantic jesus youth
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
book cities giving
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
persistence independence apathy
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
tombstone masons anxious
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.