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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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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
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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 fear something before we hate.
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From now on - specialize never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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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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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
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When in doubt, choose greatness.
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
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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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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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A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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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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Sheep with a nasty side.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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