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James Joyce

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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.


— James Joyce


#life #unfettered #art

Deal with him, Hemingway!


— James Joyce


#friendship #heart #humor #inspirational #leadership

The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot.


— James Joyce


#nature

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.


— James Joyce


#death #history #knives #murder #rome

Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.


— James Joyce


#death #dublin #mount-jerome #death

There's music along the river For Love wanders there, Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair.


— James Joyce


#love

Life seemed to him a gift; the statement ‘I am alive’ seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.


— James Joyce


#life #life

Wipe your glasses with what you know.


— James Joyce


#inspirational

It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.


— James Joyce


#faith

...his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..


— James Joyce


#wonderful-imagery #dreams






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It was also here where Ezra Pound brought him to the attention of English feminist and publiJames Joycer Harriet Shaw Weaver who would become Joyce's patron providing him thousands of pounds over the next 25 years and relieving him of the burden of teaching in order to focus on his writing. During this era Joyce's eyes began to give him more and more problems. Nevertheless after four years he was restless and after the war he returned to Trieste as he had originally planned.

Joyce was born to a middle class family in Dublin where he excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere then at University College Dublin. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). ".

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