“ To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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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. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ Nothing is a masterpiece a real masterpiece till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a church, you've got to let it grow into a masterpiece. Same with a poem or a new religion. They begin as a lot of funny words. Nobody knows whether they're all nonsense or a gift from heaven. And the only people who think anything of 'em are a lot of cranks or crackpots, or poor devils who don't know enough to know anything. Look at Christianity. Just a lot of floating seeds to start with, all sorts of seeds. It was a long time before one of them grew into a tree big enough to kill the rest and keep the rain off. And it's only when the tree has been cut into planks and built into a house and the house has got pretty old and about fifty generations of ordinary lumpheads who don't know a work of art from a public convenience, have been knocking nails in the kitchen beams to hang hams on, and screwing hooks in the walls for whips and guns and photographs and calendars and measuring the children on the window frames and chopping out a new cupboard under the stairs to keep the cheese and murdering their wives in the back room and burying them under the cellar flags, that it begins even to feel like a religion. And when the whole place is full of dry rot and ghosts and old bones and the shelves are breaking down with old wormy books that no one could read if they tried, and the attic floors are bulging through the servants' ceilings with old trunks and topboots and gasoliers and dressmaker's dummies and ball frocks and dollshouses and pony saddles and blunderbusses and parrot cages and uniforms and love letters and jugs without handles and bridal pots decorated with forgetmenots and a piece out at the bottom, that it grows into a real old faith, a masterpiece which people can really get something out of, each for himself. And then, of course, everybody keeps on saying that it ought to be pulled down at once, because it's an insanitary nuisance. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ 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 he knows everything. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ Authority as he knows it, is always dangerous, selfish, inexplicable. It looks after its own mysterious affairs in a dark privacy. It never explains. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ The will is never free — it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car — it can't steer. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ The will is never free — it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car — it can't steer. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ No one can estimate the power of authority among the poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. ”
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