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James Joyce

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


— James Joyce


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


— James Joyce


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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.


— James Joyce


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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.


— James Joyce


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A nation is the same people living in the same place.


— James Joyce


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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.


— James Joyce


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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.


— James Joyce


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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.


— James Joyce


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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


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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.


— James Joyce


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About James Joyce

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It was also here where Ezra Pound brought him to the attention of English feminist and publiJames Joycer Harriet Shaw Weaver who would become Joyce's patron providing him thousands of pounds over the next 25 years and relieving him of the burden of teaching in order to focus on his writing. During this era Joyce's eyes began to give him more and more problems. Nevertheless after four years he was restless and after the war he returned to Trieste as he had originally planned.

Joyce was born to a middle class family in Dublin where he excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere then at University College Dublin. Other major 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). ".

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