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
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.
philosophy religion atheism
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
distance body
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
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.
father
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
reading demand should
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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?
eating-well eating modest
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
wine white looks
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
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.
soul lovers sin
Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.
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.
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.
swimming rose whole
I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses