Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Carywas an Irish novelist...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CountryIreland
reality house littles
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
mean artist law
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
karma strong thinking
Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
funny-valentines-day love-you eden
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too....
democracy poet dies
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
government hell fright
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
greatness destiny symphony
A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
eye people bird
People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.
bored doubt treasure
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
children teaching punishment
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
soul doe body
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
artist frustration paint
What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.
freedom mind facts
The principal fact of life is the free mind.
tragedy world injustice
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.