72 Quotes by Joyce Cary

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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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    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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    Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

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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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    What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

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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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    Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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