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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

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
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Liberty
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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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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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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
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