Quotes by Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary

Irish novelist

Alive from: 1888-1957

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  A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.

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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.

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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.

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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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  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.

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

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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.