Joyce Cary Quotes

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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,…
• Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too....
• 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…
• A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
• I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
• God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and…
• Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
• The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
• Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma…
• 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…
• It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure…
• A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
• Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
• Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
• Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
• It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
• Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
• The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it…
• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
• For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

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