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James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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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.
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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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.
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
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