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Joyce Cary
Irish
Novelist
About the author
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Will
#Purpose
#Car
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary,
Irish
Novelist
#Experience
#Truth
#Arguments
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,
Irish
Novelist
#World
#Man
#Evil
#Spirit
#Change
#Creation
#Insecurity
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Character
#God
#Nothing
#Being
#Universe
#Nature
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Time
#Right
#Now
#Life
#God
#Nothing
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,
Irish
Novelist
#World
#Man
#Tragedy
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,
Irish
Novelist
#Love
#Imagination
#Trees
#Apples
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
Joyce Cary,
Irish
Novelist
#Religion
#Soul
#Body
#Politics
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
Joyce Cary,
Irish
Novelist
#Law
#Court
#Artist