James Joyce Quotes
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. B. W. Huebsch, 1916, p. 77.
Though there are several versions of the story surrounding this quote, it is agreed that Brown was at a reception and was drunk and the “creature in scarlet” turned out to be a Cardinal Archbishop.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
