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
swimming rose whole
I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses
prayer confused heart
Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.
real adventure home
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
mother children father
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
learning programming particular
In the particular is contained the universal.
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.