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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

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
Crime
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Class
Delirium
Literature
Slums
May
Suburbs
Wells
Grounds
Well
Breeding
Apathy

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