Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
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James Joyce
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About James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly 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…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by James JoyceMen are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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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.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.