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
reading demand should
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
philosophy religion atheism
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
mind stones quagmire
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
voice space silence
The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.
ambition soul mouths
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
heart dark tyrants
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
love eye heart
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
eye vanity darkness
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
writing order perfect
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
men bottles men-and-women
Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.
heart dublin dies
When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.
mother mean kissing
What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
fall light scotch-whisky
The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.
space stride short-time
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.