James Joyce

"I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me. And I am lothing their little warm tricks. And lothing their mean cosy turns. And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time."

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Source: James Joyce (1967). “A shorter Finnegans wake”, Viking Pr

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James Joyce

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.

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