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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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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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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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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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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.
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