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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Coventry
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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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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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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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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No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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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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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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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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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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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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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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