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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. — Joyce Cary

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims. — Joyce Cary

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense. — Joyce Cary

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year. — Joyce Cary

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

Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it. — Joyce Cary

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

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

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. — Joyce Cary

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint. — Joyce Cary

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. — Joyce Cary

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. — John Updike

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

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. — Joyce Cary

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real. — Joyce Cary

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. — Joyce Cary

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. — Joyce Cary

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary

The principal fact of life is the free mind. — Joyce Cary

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister. — Joyce Cary

Something you have to make ... It's all work, work. — Joyce Cary

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. — Joyce Cary

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

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man — Joyce Cary

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. — Joyce Cary

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

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? — Joyce Cary

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

I want the best of everything for everybody, and it will cost millions. — Joyce Cary

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once. — Joyce Cary

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. — Joyce Cary

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst. — Joyce Cary

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

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. — Joyce Cary

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination? — Joyce Cary

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. — Joyce Cary

The only good government ... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright. — Joyce Cary