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
ambition soul mouths
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
cheesy gone milk
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
space stride short-time
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
heart dublin dies
When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.
stars memories secret
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
mind stones quagmire
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
score tenors
Tenors get women by the score.
squares body lasts
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history....
wind rose desire
Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
writing names childhood
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
time flames space
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
jesus father atheism
And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.
truth jest true-words
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
mad police genius
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.