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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Men
Consequence
Hatred
Becomes
Child
Hate
Noises
Fear
Hates
Children
Fears
Something
Noise

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