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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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Joyce Cary
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: March 29
Novelist
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Derry
Northern Ireland
Joyce Lunel Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
Work
Essential
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Art
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Thing

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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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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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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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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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What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
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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 your imagination too.
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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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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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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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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.
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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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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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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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The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
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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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Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
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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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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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