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

Joyce Cary

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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
Wise
Politics
Lives
Live
Pilgrims
Without
Charts
Men
Navigation
Like
Pilgrim
Sea

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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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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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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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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
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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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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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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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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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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 and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
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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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What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
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A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
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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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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
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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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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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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 person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.
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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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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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The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
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