James Joyce
Irish Novelist and Poet
| Date of Birth | : | 02 Feb, 1882 |
| Date of Death | : | 13 Jan, 1941 |
| Place of Birth | : | Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland |
| Profession | : | Author, Poet, Teacher |
| Nationality | : | Irish |
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of 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 Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.
Quotes
Total 21 Quotes
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Shut your eyes and see.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
