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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
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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For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
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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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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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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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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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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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Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
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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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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
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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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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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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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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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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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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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