"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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Source : Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper

Joyce Cary

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“With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.”
“My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.”
“Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.”
“I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.”
“Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 12, 2014
“I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.”
“The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something Â I make, the better.”

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