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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
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Derry
Northern Ireland
Joyce Lunel Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary
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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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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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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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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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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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For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
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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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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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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
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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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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
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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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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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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
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Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
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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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Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
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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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