Joyce Cary /Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary/ quotes Born: 12/07/1888 Died: 03/29/1957 Country: united_kingdom

• I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. (Joyce Cary) [look/life/god/time]
• For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. (Joyce Cary) [life/mind/evil/spirit]
• 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. (Joyce Cary) [god/character/being/god]
• Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body. (Joyce Cary) [religion/politics/thing/soul & body]
• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. (Joyce Cary) [evil/spirit/creation/change]
• A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. (Joyce Cary)
• It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything. (Joyce Cary)
• Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. (Joyce Cary)
• Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. (Joyce Cary)
• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress. (Joyce Cary)
• 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. (Joyce Cary)

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