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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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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 reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
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We fear something before we hate.
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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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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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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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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
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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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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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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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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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