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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
England
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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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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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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We create the world in which we live if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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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 worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
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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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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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