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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
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In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid one attractive, one vulgar one noble, one ape-like one serious and sincere, one undignified and false one far-sighted, one short EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.
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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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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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