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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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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
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The politician is responsible for law, for physical security, and in a world of tumult, of perpetual conflict, he has the alternatives, roughly again, of persuading people or shooting them. In the democracies, we persuade. And this gives great power to the spellbinder, the artist in words, the preacher, the demagogue, whatever you call him.
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She had a mannish manner of mind and face, able to feel hot and think cold.
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Others complain that I don't make the fundamental idea plain enough. This is every writer's dilemma. Your form is your meaning, and your meaning dictates the form. But what you try to convey is reality—the fact plus the feeling, a total complex experience of a real world. If you make your scheme too explicit, the framework shows and the book dies. If you hide it too thoroughly, the book has no meaning and therefore no form. It is a mess.
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We have to have conceptual knowledge to organize our societies, to save our own lives, to lay down general ends for conduct, to engage in any activity at all, but that knowledge, like the walls we put up to keep out the weather, shuts out the real world and the sky. It is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
William H. Seward
Joyce Cary
Born:
December 7, 1888
Died:
March 29, 1957
(aged 68)
Bio:
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary was an Irish novelist.
Known for:
The Horse's Mouth (1944)
Mister Johnson (1939)
Herself Surprised (1941)
Prisoner of grace (1940)
Not honour more (1955)
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