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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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Coventry
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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.
Cyril Connolly
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
Cyril Connolly
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
Cyril Connolly
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
Cyril Connolly
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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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
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
Cyril Connolly
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
Cyril Connolly
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Cyril Connolly
When in doubt, choose greatness.
Cyril Connolly
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.
Cyril Connolly
No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
Cyril Connolly
