| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31681 |
| QUOTATION: | My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Joyce (18821941), Irish author. Letter, February 19, 1907, to his brother, Stanislaus Joyce. Letters of James Joyce, ed. Richard Ellmann, vol. 2, Viking (1966). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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