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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 hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.
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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 man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
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And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.
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Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.
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Love me. Love my umbrella.
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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.
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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
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No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
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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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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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