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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Literature
Pram
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Prams
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Sombre
Somber
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Halls

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