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• 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

  Money, Hands, Years

  Joyce Cary (1991). “Mister Johnson”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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

  Joyce Cary

  Marriage, Adultery, Sin

  The Horse's Mouth ch. 8 (1944)

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

  Joyce Cary

  Mean, Artist, Law

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Grief, Funeral, Earth

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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

  Joyce Cary

  Memories, Age, Shapes

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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

  Joyce Cary

  Mother, Children, Poor

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• The principal fact of life is the free mind.

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  Freedom, Mind, Facts

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

  Joyce Cary

  Dark, Cabinets, Ministers

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

  Joyce Cary

  Love

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• Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.

  Joyce Cary

  Karma, Strong, Thinking

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

  Joyce Cary

  Government, Hell, Fright

  "The Horse's Mouth". Book by Joyce Cary, www.theguardian.com. 1944.

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• A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

  Joyce Cary

  Greatness, Destiny, Symphony

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• 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.

  Joyce Cary

  Morning, Men, People

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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

  Joyce Cary

  Powerful, Imagination, Actors

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

  Joyce Cary

  Bored, Doubt, Treasure

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• 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

  Love, Heart, Despair

  Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper

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

  Joyce Cary

  Soul, Doe, Body

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

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  Democracy, Poet, Dies

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• 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.

  Joyce Cary

  Lying, Expression, Practice

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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

  Real, Character, Blow

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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

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  Tragedy, World, Injustice

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.

  Joyce Cary

  Life, Jesus, Truth

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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