72 Quotes by Joyce Cary

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    I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

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    The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

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    Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

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    No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

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    Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

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    The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

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