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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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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 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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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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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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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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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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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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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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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.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.
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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Cyril Connolly
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
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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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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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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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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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