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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
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
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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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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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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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Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
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When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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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 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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An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
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Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly
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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