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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
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Art
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Thing

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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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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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Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
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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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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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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 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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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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