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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.
Joyce Cary
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
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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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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
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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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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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All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
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The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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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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