--- title: "1 Emotional Truth Quotes By Joyce Cary" description: "1 Emotional Truth quotes by Joyce Cary. Plus more from Joyce Cary and more Emotional Truth sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/joyce-cary-11619_argument_a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-conv_3037172.jpg" --- > [A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-convey-an-emotional-truth-rather/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/joyce-cary-11619_argument_a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-conv_3037172.jpg) ## More by Joyce Cary > [A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/a-perpetually-new-and-lively-world-but-a-dangerous-one-full-of/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/i-look-upon-life-as-a-gift-from-god-i-did-nothing-to-earn-it-now-that/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/it-is-a-tragedy-of-the-world-that-no-one-knows-what-he-doesn-t-know/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [“Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green in her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/girl-going-past-clinging-to-a-young-man-s-arm-putting-up-her-face/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/it-is-the-tragedy-of-the-world-that-no-one-knows-what-he-doesn-t-know/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/nothing-is-a-masterpiece-a-real-masterpiece-till-it-s-about-two/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/politics-is-like-navigation-in-a-sea-without-charts-and-wise-men-live/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/it-is-sometimes-said-that-toleration-should-be-refused-to-the/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/the-concept-the-label-is-perpetually-hiding-from-us-all-the-nature-of/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/old-men-when-they-begin-to-hear-the-last-trumpet-on-the-morning/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [The principal fact of life is the free mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/the-principal-fact-of-life-is-the-free-mind/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/a-foul-mouthed-oaf-a-drunken-laborer-lying-in-a-drain-a-beaten-wife/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/it-was-as-dark-as-the-inside-of-a-cabinet-minister/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/to-forgive-is-wisdom-to-forget-is-genius-and-easier-because-it-s-true/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) > [I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/i-write-the-big-scenes-first-that-is-the-scenes-that-carry-the/) [Joyce Cary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-cary/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emotional-truth/joyce-cary/#itemlist", "name": "1 Emotional Truth Quotes By Joyce Cary", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joyce Cary" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-cary/a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-convey-an-emotional-truth-rather/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/joyce-cary-11619_argument_a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-conv_3037172.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/joyce-cary-11619_argument_a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-conv_3037172.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/joyce-cary-11619_argument_a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-conv_3037172.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.” — Joyce Cary", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emotional-truth/joyce-cary/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emotional-truth/joyce-cary/", "name": "Emotional Truth Quotes by Joyce Cary", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emotional-truth/joyce-cary/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/joyce-cary-11619_argument_a-novel-should-be-an-experience-and-conv_3037172.jpg" }, "description": "1 Emotional Truth quotes by Joyce Cary. 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