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James Joyce Quote
 | “Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.” ―James Joyce Source/Notes: The Dead (2008 edition), Coyote Canyon Press - ISBN: 9780979660795 |
| “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” ―James Joyce Source/Notes: Ulysses (1922) |
| Source/Notes: Last words (January 1941) |
| Source/Notes: To Jacques Mercanton, on the structure of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (1997) by Robert H. Deming, p. 22 |
James Joyce
Born: February 2, 1882
Died: January 13, 1941 (aged 58)
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Novelist
Bio: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 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. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominently the stream of consciousness technique he perfected.
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