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

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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. by Joyce Cary

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

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

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

creativity conceited men

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her an... by Joyce Cary

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

teaching justice ideas

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.

giving inspire life

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

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

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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nat... by Joyce Cary

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

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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rat... by Joyce Cary

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

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Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one gene... by Joyce Cary

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

unbearable injustice generations

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

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

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

forgiving genius heart

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men... by Joyce Cary

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

wise sea men

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

problem people world

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court o... by Joyce Cary

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

artist law mean

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.

karma strong thinking

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

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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

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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.

block night lying

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

valentines-day eden love

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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