James Joyce

James Joyce (1882 - 1941), full name James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He is known for his contribution in the avant-garde movement in literature.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Welcome O Life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• Ireland is the old sow that eats her furrow.

- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

- Ulysses

• ... and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

- Ulysses, the ending

• How small it's all.

- Finnegans Wake

• His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

- The Dead in Dubliners

Fiorello Henry La Guardia