James Joyce

James Joyce was was an Irish novelist and poet.

Joyce is most known for his works in the modernist avant-garde movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His first two most known works are the short story Dubliners and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In 1922, James Joyce had Ulysses published. This novel, which has many parallels to Homer's epic The Odyssey, is a strangely structured book with many allusions and puns, and it known to be one of the most influential novels of the 1900s. Joyce also has written three books of poetry.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.James Joyce

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.James Joyce

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.James Joyce

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.James Joyce

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.James Joyce

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.James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.James Joyce

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

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

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.James Joyce

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.James Joyce

James Joyce was a famous Irish novelist and poet, who was born on February 2, 1882. As a person born on this date, James Joyce is listed in our database as the 4th most popular celebrity for the day (February 2) and the 3rd most popular for the year (1882).

People born on February 2 fall under the Zodiac sign of Aquarius, the Water Bearer. James Joyce is the 158th most popular Aquarius.

Aside from information specific to James Joyce's birthday, James Joyce is the 15th most famous Irish.

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