James Joyce

Novelist, Poet

James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet known for his groundbreaking works like 'Ulysses,' which revolutionized modernist literature through innovative narrative techniques.

Born
February 2, 1882
Died
January 13, 1941
Quotes
323
Rank
#163

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"In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame."

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"The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed."

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"What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?"

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"When I die Dublin will be written on my heart."

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"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past."

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"My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial"

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"What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours."

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"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."

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"[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life."

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"I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women."

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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

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"And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature."

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"Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."

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"I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description"

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"All fiction is autobiographical fantasy."

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"The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success."

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"Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory."

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"A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out."

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