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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Perfectly
Loving
Love

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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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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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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