Joyce Cary Quotes
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Critics disagree about almost every quality of a writer’s work; and when some agree about a quality, they disagree about whether it is to be praised or blamed, nurtured or rooted out. After enough criticism the writer is covered with lipstick and bruises, and the two are surprisingly evenly distributed.
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It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.
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I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
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Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.
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When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.
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Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
