72 Quotes by Joyce Cary

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    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.

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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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    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.

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

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

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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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    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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    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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