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Cyril Connolly Inspirational Quotes (97)

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Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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