Tao Te Ching
James Joyce
1882 – 1941 CE
James Joyce (1882 – 1941)
Polyphonic novelist, poet, one of the most influential 20th century writers, stream of consciousness avant-garde modernist; Joyce revolutionized modern fiction while - according to a psychoanalyst - using his writing to avoid a complete psychotic break. A huge influence on philosophers and writers as varied as Borges, Rushdie, Beckett, Robert Anton Wilson, Joseph Campbell, and John Updike; his influenced crossed over into the world of science as he became the source of the now popular scientific term, “quark..” Finnegans Wake - considered the most challenging work ever written in the English language - shines as a monument to the possibilities of creative spirit unshackled by regard for public opinion. Although considered one of the greatest novels ever written., controversy and resistance kept his novel Ulysses from being published in the USA until 12 years after it was written. His writing style and content brings out the deeper reality of situations and experiences pointing toward the sense rather than the words.
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Sources
Unlisted Sources
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Araby
Quotes by James Joyce (32 quotes)
“Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.”
from Finnegan's Wake
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“Impovernment of the bobble by the bauble for the bubble.”
from Finnegan's Wake
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“In the particular is contained the universal.”
Chapters:
34. An Unmoored Boat
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“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
from Finnegan's Wake
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
from Ulysses
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“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”
from Ulysses
Chapters:
40. Returning
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“Let my country die for me.”
from Ulysses
Chapters:
31. Victory Funeral
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“You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly”
from Ulysses
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“time's ruins build eternity's mansions.”
from Ulysses
Chapters:
43. No Effort, No Trace
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“And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all!”
from Finnegan's Wake
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“Shut your eyes and see.”
from Ulysses
Chapters:
1. The Unnamed
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“Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
from Ulysses
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“Where the hand of man never set foot.”
from Finnegan's Wake
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“though a day be as dense as a decade, no mouth has the might”
from Finnegan's Wake
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2. The Wordless Teachings
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“A peak in a poke and a pig in a pew.”
from Finnegan's Wake
Chapters:
5. Christmas Trees
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“What bird has done yesterday man may do next year, be it fly, be it moult, be it hatch, be it agreement in the nest.”
from Finnegan's Wake
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
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“I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world.”
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“It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak.”
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“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.”
from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
from Ulysses
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“The artist—like the God of creation—remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, pairing his fingernails.”
from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores… I was a Flower of the mountains yes… and how he kissed me… and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes… and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his hear twas going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
from Ulysses
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“He who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord. Thus spake Zarathustra.”
from Ulysses
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“'Tis the loud laugh bespeaks the vacant mind.”
from Ulysses
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“my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
from Araby
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“the viability of vicinals if invisible is invincible”
from Finnegan's Wake
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Quotes about James Joyce (1 quotes)
“Joyce was not only the greatest behavioral engineer who ever lived, he was one of the funniest men, rearranging the most commonplace items to produce hilarity and insight”
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