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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.
Joyce Cary
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Joyce Cary
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: March 29
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Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
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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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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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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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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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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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What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
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All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
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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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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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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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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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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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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
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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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For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
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The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
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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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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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