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
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....
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.
money hands years
No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.
memories age shapes
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
real knowing-who-you-are labels
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
knowledge men tragedy
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.
book writing emotional
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
teacher teaching enthusiasm
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
government hell fright
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
grief funeral earth
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.
heart forgiving genius
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
people world problem
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.