Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (1888–1957) was an Irish novelist. Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary was born in a hospital in Derry, Ireland in 1888. His family had been landlords in Inishowen, County Donegal since Elizabethan times, but lost their property after passage of the Irish Land Act in 1882. The family dispersed and Cary had uncles who served in the frontier US Cavalry and the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. Most of the Carys wound up in England. Arthur Cary, his father, trained as an engineer and married Charlotte Joyce, the well-to-do daughter of a Belfast banker. After his son was born in 1888, Arthur moved his family to London.
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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
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.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Freedom
For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. 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. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Change, Freedom
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Politicians, Politics
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Architecture, Aging, Age
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
Topics: Miracles
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Reading, Books
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