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Joyce Cary

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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.


— Joyce Cary


#forgiveness #genius #forgiveness

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.


— Joyce Cary


#forgetting #forgiveness #genius #gulley-jimson #heart-beats

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.


— Joyce Cary


#life

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


#being #blow #character #consistent #deny

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


#know #knows #less #man #more

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.


— Joyce Cary


#eden #grow #imagination #like #love

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


#coming #complain #did #earn #gift

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.


— Joyce Cary


#artist #court #i #know #law

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


#attached #car #engine #free #never

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.


— Joyce Cary


#does #guide #organized #politics #religion






About Joyce Cary






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Cary: "The whole point of the trilogy is the all-pervasion of the political scene. Sara wants to rise in society and find a secure home but her appetite for life causes her to lose her bourgeois home and status. Amanda is 32 an introspective and bookish woman; her aunts are determined to see her married though each has a different candidate for husband.

Joyce Cary (born Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary December 7 1888 – March 29 1957) was an Anglo-Irishnovelist and artist.

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