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Quotation from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call 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 defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter V (Project Gutenberg text)
Walking with Cranly after refusing his mother's wish that he make his Easter duty, Stephen declares his intentions.
Citation: "I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call 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 defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning." — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter V (Project Gutenberg text). (id joyce-portrait-of-the-artist-q6)
Portrait: Revolutionary Joyce Better Contrast, Unknown, Public domain.
