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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882 – 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known 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). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. A brilliant student, he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O’Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father’s unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance."
"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
"I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality."
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
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- - - - - - -"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
"I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality."
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
