James Joyce

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Irish novelist and poet who was born in Rathgar, Dublin in the Republic of Ireland and he managed to pass away far from his birthplace, specifically in Switzerland. Many people known James Joyce as a result of Ulysses, a story that managed to modernize Homer's Odyssey.


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Quote Left He winged away on a wildgoup's chase across the kathartic ocean and made synthetic ink and sensitive paper for his own end out of his wit's wa... Quote Right
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Quote Left Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives. Quote Right
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Quote Left Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police. Quote Right
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Quote Left If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content to recognize m... Quote Right
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Quote Left No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. Quote Right
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