"Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor……" — Joyce Cary
"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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Joyce Cary
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48 Quotes by Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary has 48 quotes on this site.
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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is…
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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…
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only…
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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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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God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would…
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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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The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
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Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks…
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I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea…
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It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a…
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A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
— Saint Basil
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
— Joseph Addison
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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
— William S. Burroughs
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Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite.…
— Bryan Callen
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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
— Andrew Carnegie
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