Joyce Cary Short Quotes

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When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

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She had a mannish manner of mind and face, able to feel hot and think cold.

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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

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A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

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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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Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

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Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul—politics does the same thing for the body.

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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. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

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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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I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

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No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

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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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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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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 he is that he knows everything.

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I don't care for philosophers in books. They are always bores. A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

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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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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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Teaching, in short, like everything else that conveys a meaning in words, is an art, and you can't be a good artist unless you believe you are giving a truth.

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Poets have started most of the revolutions, especially nationalist revolutions. On the other hand, life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

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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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