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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 the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

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Joyce Cary
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: March 29
Novelist
Writer
Derry
Northern Ireland
Joyce Lunel Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
Character
Consistent
Nothing
Deny
Real
Blow
Would
Miracle
Simply
Universe
Nature
Become
Vanish

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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. And their smiles are just politeness.
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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
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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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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
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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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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 is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
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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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People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.
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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
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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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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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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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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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The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
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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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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths or at any rate, good imitations.
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