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James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.
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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
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Life is the great teacher.
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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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