Joyce Cary Quotes (13 Quotes)


    Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

    Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

    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.

    It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

    Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.


    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.

    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.

    A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

    Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden. It's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else.


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