Joyce Cary
Joyce Cary
Arthur Joyce Lunel Carywas an Irish novelist...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CountryIreland
love heart despair
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
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.
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.
art ideas world
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
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.
lying expression practice
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
democracy poet dies
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
car purpose engines
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
art hard-work essentials
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
powerful imagination actors
What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
lying block night
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.
mother children poor
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
soul doe body
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.