Joyce Cary Quotes
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Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
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The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
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Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
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I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.
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The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
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A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
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I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
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Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.
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Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.
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The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
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No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
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Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
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No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.
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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
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When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
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Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.
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All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
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I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
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The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
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A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
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