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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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Coventry
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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