Author: Joyce Cary

Quotes

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.

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.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Joyce Cary

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

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

- Joyce Cary

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.

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

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

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

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