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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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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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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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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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We fear something before we hate.
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Sheep with a nasty side.
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
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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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In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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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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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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