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
decent brazen
You get a decent do at the Brazen Head
hands water i-can
I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?
men curves lines
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
weed cylinders mouths
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
beautiful believe love-you
You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.
life art believe
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.
teacher humble life-is
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
taken giving forever
While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
love life positive-thinking
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
beautiful running wire
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
mirrors razors bucks
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
devil made cooks
God made food; the devil the cooks.
goats bucks
Redheaded women buck like goats.
imagination intellectual
The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!