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• Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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• He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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• We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you’re well and not in hell. Nice change of air. Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory.

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• Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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• The workers were in the hole, … They heard some popping sounds and they came out. They don’t know if they affected the electrical service or if the electrical service went sour for some other reason.

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• As for Tolstoy, … I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!

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• Love is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.

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• Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

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

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• My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

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• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

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• Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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• Your battles inspired me not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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• When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

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

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• When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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• You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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• The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and partridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power.

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• And his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

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• I belong to the faubourg Saint-Patrice called Ireland for short.

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Birth:	2nd February, 1882
Death:	13th January, 1941
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish novelist, short story writer and poet. He earned a BA degree from the University College Dublin in 1902. He wrote several novels include: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. He wrote several collection of poems include: Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, and Collected Poems. He wrote several short stories include: Dubliners, The Dead, Araby, Eveline, The Sisters, Clay, Counterparts, Grace, and Two Gallants.

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