Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Carywas an Irish novelist...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CountryIreland
art painting modern
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
wise men sea
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
emotional crafts argument
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
unbearable generations injustice
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
life-is-hard joy brave
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.
teaching ideas justice
When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
creativity men conceited
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
forgiveness forgiving genius
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
mother children lying
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.
real character blow
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.
morning men people
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.