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James Joyce

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.


— James Joyce


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


— James Joyce


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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.


— James Joyce


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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.


— James Joyce


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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.


— James Joyce


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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.


— James Joyce


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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.


— James Joyce


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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.


— James Joyce


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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.


— James Joyce


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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.


— James Joyce


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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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