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• 1808 - Gerard De Nerval
• 1920 - Thomas Gold
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• 1998 - John Derek
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• 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 Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goodness, Evil, Freedom, Spirit, Mankind, Creativity

• 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 Carey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character

• Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

  Joyce Carey

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

  Joyce Carey

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

  Joyce Carey

• It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know — the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

  Joyce Carey

• 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 Carey

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

  Joyce Carey

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

  Joyce Carey

• Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

  Joyce Carey

• My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

  Joyce Carey

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• Love doesn’t grow on the trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else. It’s all work, work.

  Joyce Carey

  Topics in Love