James Joyce
Ulysses revolutionized the modern novel
Most quoted
"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning."
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
All quotes by James Joyce (263)
I am not a hero, but I have lived in heroic times.
The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
Contemporaries of James Joyce
Other Literatures born within 50 years of James Joyce (1882–1941).