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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.

Joyce Cary

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Joyce Cary
Age: 68 †
Born: 1888
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: March 29
Novelist
Writer
Derry
Northern Ireland
Joyce Lunel Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
Bird
Tree
Eyes
Eye
Birch
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Sparrow
Never
Sparrows
People
Concepts
Perception

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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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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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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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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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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
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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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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
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A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
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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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For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work 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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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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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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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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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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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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