"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 calls 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 defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."

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About James Joyce

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose work transformed modern literature. He is best known for Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. His experimentation with language and narrative form had enduring influence on 20th-century fiction.

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